Job 14:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאִ֥ישׁ שָׁכַ֗ב וְֽלֹא־יָ֫ק֥וּם עַד־בִּלְתִּ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ וְלֹֽא־יֵ֝עֹ֗רוּ מִשְּׁנָתָֽם׃

Transliteration

wəʾîš šākab wəlōʾ-yāqûm ʿad-biltî šāmayim lōʾ yāqîṣû wəlōʾ-yēʿōrû miššənātām

Grammar Details

• *wəʾîš*: conjunction + noun, masculine, singular - and man
• *šākab*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he lies down
• *wəlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *yāqûm*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular - he arises/rises
• *ʿad*: preposition - until
• *biltî*: noun, feminine, singular, construct - wearing out of
• *šāmayim*: noun, masculine, plural - heavens
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yāqîṣû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they awake
• *yēʿōrû*: verb, niphal imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural - they are roused
• *miššənātām*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular, construct + 3rd person, masculine, plural, suffix - from their sleep

Word Meanings

• *ʾîš*: man/person/each
• *šākab*: lies down/sleeps/rests
• *yāqûm*: arises/rises/gets up
• *biltî*: wearing out/cessation/non-existence
• *šāmayim*: heavens/sky
• *yāqîṣû*: awake/wake up
• *yēʿōrû*: are roused/are stirred up/are awakened
• *šēnâ*: sleep/slumber

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
• Acts 3:21 : 21 whom the heaven {G3303} must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of {G3956} His holy prophets that have been from of old.
• Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
• Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
• Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
• Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
• 1 Thess 4:14-15 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• 2 Pet 3:10-13 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; {G1722} {G3571} in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein {G846} shall be burned up. 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness, 12 looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein {G3739} dwelleth righteousness.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
• Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
• Ps 102:26 : 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
• Eccl 3:19-21 : 19 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; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?
• Eccl 12:5 : 5 yea, they shall be afraid of [that which is] high, and terrors [shall be] in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Isa 26:19 : 19 Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
• Isa 51:6 : 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.
• Isa 65:17 : 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
• Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• John 11:11-13 : 11 These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.