Quotes about Sheol
sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
— Genesis 44:31
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
— Job 7:9
But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
— Genesis 42:38
The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.
— Proverbs 15:24
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
— Jonah 2:2
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
— 1 Samuel 2:6
If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
— Job 17:13
But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
— Numbers 16:30
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
— Job 17:16
The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
— Psalm 9:17
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
— Hosea 13:14
They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
— Numbers 16:33