Isaiah 14:10
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10 All of them will speak
and say to you:
“You, too, have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!”
Ezekiel 32:21
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21 The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: “They have come down; they lie still, the uncircumcised, killed by the sword.”(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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16 For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?
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Psalm 82:6-7
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6 I say, “You are gods,
children of the Most High, all of you;(A)
7 nevertheless, you shall die like mortals
and fall like any prince.”[a](B)
Footnotes
- 82.7 Or fall as one man, O princes
Psalm 49:20
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20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(A)
Psalm 49:6-14
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6 those who trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?(A)
7 Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life;[a]
there is no price one can give to God for it.(B)
8 For the ransom of life is costly
and can never suffice,(C)
9 that one should live on forever
and never see the Pit.(D)
10 When we look at the wise, they die;
fool and dolt perish together
and leave their wealth to others.(E)
11 Their graves[b] are their homes forever,
their dwelling places to all generations,
though they named lands their own.(F)
12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
they are like the animals that perish.(G)
13 Such is the fate of the foolhardy,
the end of those[c] who are pleased with their lot. Selah(H)
14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,[d]
and their form shall waste away;
Sheol shall be their home.[e](I)
Luke 16:20-23
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20 And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,(A) 21 who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. 22 The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham.[a] The rich man also died and was buried.(B) 23 In Hades, where he was being tormented, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.[b](C)
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