Job 3:19

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¹⁹Both small and great are there,
and the slave is set free from his master.^(A)

Ecclesiastes 9:2-3

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²Everything is the same for everyone:^(A) there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked,^(B) for the good and the bad,^[a] for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath. ³This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live^(C)—after that they go to the dead.

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Ecclesiastes 9:2 LXX, Aq, Syr, Vg; MT omits and the bad

Isaiah 14:3-11

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Downfall of the King of Babylon

³When the Lord gives you rest from your pain,^(A) torment, and the hard labor^(B) you were forced to do, ⁴you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon^(C) and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging^[a] has become quiet!
⁵The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers.
⁶It struck the peoples in anger
with unceasing blows.
It subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
⁷All the earth is calm and at rest;
people shout with a ringing cry.
⁸Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon
rejoice over you:^(D)
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter has come against us.”

⁹Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers^[b] of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
¹⁰They all respond to you, saying:
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
¹¹Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”