25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

The shades of the dead tremble underneath the waters and their inhabitants.

When a wicked man dies his expectation perishes, indeed the hope of unjust men perishes.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.

A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he. For he comes in with vanity and departs in darkness, and his name will be covered with darkness. Moreover he has not seen the sun nor known anything. The stillborn child has more rest than the other.

For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off in death?

He must join the generation of his ancestors who will never see light again.

No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave?

Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness (mercy) in the place of destruction?

I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

Will you perform miracles for those who are dead? Will the dead rise and give thanks to you? Will anyone tell about your loving kindness in the grave or about your faithfulness after they parish?

Those who are dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do those who go into the silence of the grave.

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

If Jehovah had not been my help, I would have been silent in death.

My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

For the enemy has persecuted me. He has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

He kept me in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.

Tell them: 'Are you more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and join the godless people.

You Egyptians will be crushed with the godless people. You will lie with those who were killed in battle.

The mightiest warriors will say to Pharaoh from the grave: You and your defenders have come down. You now lie with the godless people who were killed in battle.

A bed has been made for Elam among the dead. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. The soldiers were godless people. They were killed in battle because they terrified others in the land of the living. They suffer disgrace with those who have gone down to the pit. They lie among the dead.

They do not lie with the godless warriors who died and went down to the grave with their weapons of war. Their swords were placed under their heads. Their iniquity rested on their bones because they terrified others in the land of the living.

Go toward the end, for you will enter into rest. Then you will rise for your determined condition in life at the end of the days.