Job 14:12

And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again till the heaven be dissolved, and they shall not awake from their sleep.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

In Context

11For the sea wastes in length of time, and a river fails and is dried up.

13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

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Cross References

Job 3:13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning, I am no more.

Job 19:25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me,

Ecclesiastes 11:8For even if a man should live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Isaiah 26:19The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for + 26:19 See Ps. 110.the dew from thee is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16

Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →

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