23 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he. In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered. Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,

But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword.

The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.

They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

But you, go on your way and take your rest: for you will be in your place at the end of the days.