Job 14:12

And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again 1 Till the heaven be dissolved, 1 And they shall not awake from their sleep. 1

Updated 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, 1 And a river fails and is dried up. 1

13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, 1 And hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, 1 And thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me! 1

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Cross References

Job 3:13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, 1 I should have slept and been at rest, 1

Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, 1 And purged my sin? 1 But now I shall depart to the earth; 1 And in the morning, I am no more.

Job 19:25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, 1

Ecclesiastes 11:8For even if a man should live many years, 1 And rejoice in them all; 1 Yet let him remember the days of darkness; 1 For they shall be many. 1 All that comes is vanity. 1

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 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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