Quotes About Death

who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?í

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”