Job 14:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised 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 the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
• Acts 3:21 : 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
• Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain still 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 on 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 were passed away; and there was no more sea.
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
• Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• 1 Thess 4:14-15 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
• 2 Pet 3:7 : 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.
• 2 Pet 3:10-13 : 10 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. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be 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; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: 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 that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
• Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Isa 26:19 : 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.
• 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 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 the LORD, 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 said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.