Job 21:23

DEATH LEVELS ALL; BOTH THE WICKED AND THE RIGHTEOUS

"One dieth in his full strength,

Being fully at ease and quiet:

His pails are full of milk,

And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

And another dieth in bitterness of soul,

And never tasteth of good.

They lie down alike in the dust,

And the worm covereth them."

"They lie down alike in the dust" (Job 21:26). Job here declares that as in life there is no visible separation of the wicked from the righteous in the degree of their prosperity, even so it is the same way in death. "One man dies in prosperity and another in misery; and both may be either wicked or good."[23]