/lit/ - Literature

>>6656754
>note how the Old Testament doesn't mention an afterlife

>Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Ecclesiastes 9:10

>For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
Psalms 86:13

>For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
Psalms 16:10

>For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?
Psalms 6:5

>All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.
Genesis 37:35

>“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
Amos 9:2

>Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Isaiah 14:9

>They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:13

>For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.
Isaiah 38:18

>It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Job 11:8

>Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Job 24:19

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