'Down' in the Bible

and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I -- only I alone -- escaped to tell you!"

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone."

They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"

His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like one uproots a tree.

"O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

and if God is gracious to him and says, 'Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,'

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!'

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

For to the snow he says, 'Fall to earth,' and to the torrential rains, 'Pour down.'

"Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?