Job 14:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was 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 were gone; and there was no more sea.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • 1 Thess 4:14-15 : 14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.
  • 2 Pet 3:7 : 7 But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
  • 2 Pet 3:10-13 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness, 12 Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat? 13 But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.
  • Job 19:25-27 : 25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; 26 And ... without my flesh I will see God; 27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Ps 102:26 : 26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
  • Eccl 3:19-21 : 19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose. 20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again. 21 Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
  • Isa 65:17 : 17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
  • Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep. 12 Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well. 13 Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.

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