Job 3:13
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13 Now I would be lying down and quiet;
I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
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3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(A) 4 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered; 5 moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
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Job 21:23
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23 One dies in full prosperity,
being wholly at ease and secure,
Job 21:13
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13 They spend their days in prosperity,
and in peace they go down to Sheol.(A)
Job 19:27
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27 whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!(A)
Job 17:13
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13 If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I spread my couch in darkness,(A)
Job 14:10-12
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
11 As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,(B)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
or be roused out of their sleep.(C)
Job 10:22
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22 the land of gloom[a] and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
Notas al pie
- 10.22 Heb gloom as darkness, deep darkness
Job 7:21
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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in the earth;
you will seek me, but I shall not be.”(A)
Job 7:8-10
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8 The eye that beholds me will see me no more;
while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.(A)
9 As the cloud fades and vanishes,
so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;(B)
10 they return no more to their houses,
nor do their places know them any more.(C)
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