Job 3:19
Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
BSB
ASV
The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
KJV
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
MORAL INTERPRETATION. The small and great are there; the servant is free from his master. Forasmuch as there is to us in this life a difference in works, doubtless there will be in the future life a difference in degrees of dignity, that whereas here one surpasses another in desert, there one may excel another in reward. Hence Truth says in the Gospel, In My Father's house are many mansions. But in those 'many mansions,' the very diversity of rewards will be in some measure in harmony.
The small and the great are there - The old and the young, the high and the low. Death levels all. It shows no respect to age; it spares none because they are vigorous, young, or beautiful. This sentiment has probably been expressed in various forms in all languages, for all people are made deeply sensible of its truth. The Classic reader will recall the ancient proverb, Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat, And the language of Horace: Aequae lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos. Omne capax movet urna nomen.
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Hebrews 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…
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Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.