26 They (A)lie down alike in the dust,
    and (B)the worms cover them.

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11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
    the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
    and worms are your covers.

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(A)It is the same for all, since (B)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (C)swears is as he who shuns an oath.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil

11 His bones are full of his (A)youthful vigor,
    but it will lie (B)down with him in the dust.

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18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
    they hear not the voice of (A)the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
    and the slave is free from his master.

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14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
    death shall be their shepherd,
and the upright (A)shall rule over them in the morning.
    (B)Their form shall be consumed (C)in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

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20 The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are (A)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like (B)a tree.’

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26 And after my skin has been thus destroyed,
    yet in[a] my flesh I shall (A)see God,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:26 Or without

14 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’
    and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

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