Job 10:21
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21 Before I go whence I shall not return,(A)
to the land of darkness and of gloom,
Job 14:10-12
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10 But when a man dies, all vigor leaves him;(A)
when a mortal expires, where then is he?
11 As when the waters of a lake fail,
or a stream shrivels and dries up,
12 So mortals lie down, never to rise.
Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake,
nor be roused out of their sleep.(B)
2 Samuel 12:23
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23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”(A)
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2 Samuel 14:14
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14 We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish[a] anyone from him.(A)
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- 14:14 Not to banish: a possible allusion to the religious institution of cities of refuge for involuntary murderers; see Nm 35:9–15.
Wisdom 2:1
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Chapter 2
1 For, not thinking rightly, they said among themselves:[a]
“Brief and troubled is our lifetime;(A)
there is no remedy for our dying,
nor is anyone known to have come back from Hades.
Footnotes
- 2:1–20 In this speech the wicked deny survival after death and indeed invite death by their evil deeds.
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