Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Cross-reference
In Job 14:12, Job continues that man does not rise again — reinforcing the permanent death from verse 10.
In Job 3:11, Job laments not dying at birth — the same despair over death's finality found here.
In Job 7:7-10, Job uses cloud vanishing imagery for death never returning, echoing the same finality here.
In Job 19:26, Job expresses hope to see God after death — a stark contrast to the despair of death here.
In Job 10:18, Job wishes he had died before being born — another expression of the same hopelessness about death.
In Job 17:13-16, Job elaborates on the same hopeless death, seeing the grave as his only home.
Job 20:7 uses the same 'where is he?' phrase for the wicked who perish — echoing Job 14:10's question about all humans.
Job 16:22 speaks of going the way of no return — a direct parallel to the mortality and finality in Job 14:10.
Job 10:21 repeats the idea of going to darkness and not returning — reinforcing the irreversible departure questioned in Job 14:10.
Job 7:9 echoes the finality of death — as a cloud vanishes, the dead do not return from Sheol, answering the 'where is he?' of Job 14:10.
In Job 11:20, the wicked's hope is to breathe their last — a similar focus on expiration, but applied to the wicked specifically.
In Genesis 49:33, Jacob breathes his last using the same Hebrew phrase, but dies peacefully gathered to his people.
Psalm 39:13 laments departure and being no more — a strong parallel to Job's reflection on human mortality in Job 14:10.
Psalm 103:16 says the wind passes and its place knows it no more — directly parallels the 'where is he?' of Job 14:10.
Psalm 146:4 states when breath departs, plans perish — echoes the finality and the question of what becomes of a person after death.
Ecclesiastes 3:19 echoes Job's theme: both humans and animals share the same mortal fate, dying and breathing their last.
1 Corinthians 15:43 describes the body sown in weakness but raised in glory—contrasting Job's view of death as the irreversible end.
In Matthew 27:50, Jesus gives up his spirit — a voluntary, redemptive death, contrasting with the hopeless end here.
Psalm 37:10 says the wicked will be no more and their place gone — similar to 'where is he?' but limited to the wicked.
In Proverbs 14:32, the righteous find refuge even in death — offering hope that contrasts with the bleak view here.
Zechariah 1:5 asks 'do the prophets live forever?'—affirming death's finality, just as Job states man 'breathes his last and is no more.'
In Luke 16:22, both beggar and rich man die but enter an afterlife — contrasting with death as the end here.
In Luke 16:23, the rich man is in torment after death — further contrasting with Job's view of death as unconsciousness.