Job 14:12 · KJV
“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens {be} no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”
— Job 14:12
{As} the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 14 — Context
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}
11{As} the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens {be} no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14If a man die, shall he live {again}? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Cross References
Job 10:21-22
Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead {men} shall live, {together with} my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew {is as} the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all {is} vanity.
2 Peter 3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Job 30:23
For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and {to} the house appointed for all living.
2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.