Job 14:12
And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11Waters have gone away from a sea, And a river becometh waste and dry.
Cross References
Job 3:13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept — then there is rest to me,
Job 7:21Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me — and I am not!
Job 19:25That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Psalms 102:26They — They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed.
Ecclesiastes 11:8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming [is] vanity.
Isaiah 26:19'Thy dead live — My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs [is] thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.
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 →