Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
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Exodus 4:18
Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
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Exodus 32:33
Yahweh said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot him out of my book.
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Numbers 18:8
Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.
Malachi 2:5
“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.
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1 Samuel 24:14
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
1 Samuel 24:15
May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
1 Kings 14:11
The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field, for Yahweh has spoken it.” ’
1 Kings 21:19
You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?” ’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”
1 Kings 22:38
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves, according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.
Psalms 59:6
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Matthew 7:6
“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 15:26
But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
Matthew 15:27
But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
Philippians 3:2
Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.
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2 Samuel 20:11
One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”
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2 Samuel 20:12
Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
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2 Kings 18:19
Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
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2 Chronicles 7:21
This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
Psalms 89:19
Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
Jeremiah 18:16
to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.
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Esther 8:11
In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
Jeremiah 39:18
For I will surely save you. You won’t fall by the sword, but you will escape with your life, because you have put your trust in me,” says Yahweh.’ ”
Jeremiah 45:5
Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh, ‘but I will let you escape with your life wherever you go.’ ”
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Job 2:4
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
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Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Job 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19
The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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Job 10:16
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
Proverbs 30:30
The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn’t turn away for any;
Isaiah 38:13
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Lamentations 3:10
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
Hosea 13:7
Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.
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Psalms 6:3
My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?
Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
Psalms 30:9
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psalms 88:11
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Psalms 88:12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 115:17
The dead don’t praise Yah, nor any who go down into silence,
Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
Ecclesiastes 9:8
Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.
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Job 21:23
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:32
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
Job 21:33
The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
Job 21:34
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Psalms 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Psalms 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
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Ecclesiastes 3:18
I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
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Ecclesiastes 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
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Ecclesiastes 11:1
Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
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Isaiah 4:3
It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
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Isaiah 36:4
Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
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Isaiah 37:36
Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.
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Ezekiel 22:24
“Son of man, tell her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed nor rained on in the day of indignation.’
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Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
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Job 14:8
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
Job 14:9
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Job 14:12
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
Lamentations 3:22
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
Luke 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
Luke 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
Luke 16:27
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
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Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
Luke 16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
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John 14:28
You heard how I told you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.
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Hebrews 9:17
For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
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Revelation 5:5
One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
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