Job 14:12

so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.

Majority Standard Bible

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

11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

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Cross References

Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Job 19:25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.

Psalms 102:26They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.

Ecclesiastes 11:8So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.

Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.

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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