25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

"The giants and worthies that are slain, and lie under the world with their companions;

When an ungodly man dieth, his hope is gone; the confidence of riches shall perish.

Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.

For they that be living, know that they shall die: but they that be dead, know nothing, neither deserve they anymore. For their memorial is forgotten,

If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. For he cometh to naught, and goeth his way into darkness, and his name is forgotten. Moreover, he seeth not the Sun, and knoweth of no rest neither here nor there:

For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?

But when he followeth his fathers' generation, he shall never see light any more.

For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the hell?

Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah. May thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction?

The dead praise not thee, O LORD, neither all they that go down into silence.

For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

If the LORD had not helped me, my soul had almost been put to silence.

For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains.

Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.

He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever.

Down, how fair soever thou be, and lay thee with the uncircumcised!

Yea, among the uncircumcised shalt thou be destroyed, and sleep with them, that perish through the sword.

The mighty worthies and his helpers, that be gone down and lie with the uncircumcised and with them that be slain with the sword: shall speak to him out of the hell.

Their burial is given them and all their people, among them that be slain. Their graves are round about all them, which be uncircumcised, and with them that be slain through the sword: for seeing that in times past they made the land of the living afraid, they must now bear their own shame, with them that go down to the pit, and lie among them, that be slain.

Should not they then lie also among the worthies, and uncircumcised Giants which with their weapons are gone down to hell? Whose swords are laid under their heads, whose wickedness is upon their bones, because that as worthies they have brought fear in to the land of the living.

Go thou thy way now, till it be ended: take thy rest, and bide in thy lot, till the days have an end."