8 Bible Verses about Sudden Death

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Job 34:20

“In a moment they die, and at midnight
People are shaken and pass away,
And the mighty are taken away without a hand.

Job 21:13

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:23

“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and satisfied;

1 Samuel 25:36-38

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light. But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him so that he became as a stone. About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal and he died.

Job 27:21

“The east wind carries him away, and he is gone,
For it whirls him away from his place.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks blamelessly will be delivered,
But he who is crooked will fall all at once.

Acts 20:7-12

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together. And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.read more.
But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.” When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.

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