Ezekiel 31:14
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14 This is to warn all the trees growing near water not to grow so tall, not to lift their crowns above the leafy boughs, and all that take up water not to reach up in their height.
For they are all given over to death,
to the depths of the underworld,
along with human beings,
with those who descend to the pit.’
Isaiah 26:14
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14 The dead will not live again,
the ghosts will not rise again;
for you punished and destroyed them,
wiped out all memory of them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
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5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; there is no longer any reward for them, because all memory of them is lost.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever task comes your way to do, do it with all your strength; because in Sh’ol, where you will go, there is neither working nor planning, neither knowledge nor wisdom.
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Lamentations 3:55
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55 I called on your name, Adonai,
from the bottom of the pit.
Daniel 12:2
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2 Many of those sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken, some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and abhorrence.
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Jonah 2:7
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7 (6) I was going down to the bottoms of the mountains,
to a land whose bars would close me in forever;
but you brought me up alive from the pit,
Adonai, my God!
Job 10:21
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21 before I go to the place of no return,
to the land of darkness and death-dark gloom,
Job 10:22
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22 a land of gloom like darkness itself,
of dense darkness and utter disorder,
where even the light is dark.’”
Job 14:10-12
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10 But when a human being grows weak and dies,
he expires; and then where is he?
11 Just as water in a lake disappears,
as a river shrinks and dries up;
12 so a person lies down and doesn’t arise —
until the sky no longer exists;
it will not awaken,
it won’t be roused from its sleep.
Job 26:5
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5 “The ghosts of the dead tremble
beneath the water, with its creatures.
Psalm 6:6
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6 (5) for in death, no one remembers you;
in Sh’ol, who will praise you?
Psalm 30:10
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10 (9) “What advantage is there in my death,
in my going down to the pit?
Can the dust praise you?
Can it proclaim your truth?
Psalm 88:7
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7 (6) You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into dark places, into the depths.
Psalm 88:11
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11 (10) Will you perform wonders for the dead?
Can the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? (Selah)
Psalm 88:13
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13 (12) Will your wonders be known in the dark,
or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
Psalm 115:17
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17 The dead can’t praise Adonai,
not those who sink down into silence.
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