19 As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
Job 24:19
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Job 7:8–10
8 The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. 10 He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
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Job 14:18–20
18 But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place, 19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope. 20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
Psalms 141:6–8
6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant. 7 As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol. 8 But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You…
Job 14:10–12
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Job 6:16–18
16 darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow, 17 but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat. 18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.
Book of Enoch 56:7–8
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Job 26:5–7
5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them. 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering. 7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
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