Job 14:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
  • Acts 3:21 : 21 Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,
  • Rev 20:11 : 11 And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away; and there was no place found for them.
  • Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
  • 1 Thess 4:14-15 : 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who 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 for 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 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 in it shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conduct and godliness, 12 Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which 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, where righteousness dwells.
  • Job 19:25-27 : 25 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at last on the earth; 26 And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 102:26 : 26 They shall perish, but you shall endure; yes, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a cloak you shall change them, and they shall be changed.
  • Eccl 3:19-21 : 19 For that which befalls the sons of men also befalls beasts; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other; yes, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 Also when they are afraid of what is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead men shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like 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 will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it will die in like manner: but my salvation will last forever, and my righteousness will 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 to mind.
  • Isa 66:22 : 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your descendants and your name remain.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of those who 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 will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • John 11:11-13 : 11 These things he said: and after that he said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go that I may wake him out of sleep. 12 Then his disciples said, Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better. 13 However, Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought he had spoken of taking rest in sleep.

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  • Job 14:10-11
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    10But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • 19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • 26They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.

  • 15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

  • 4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • 2And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

  • 5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  • 14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore, You have visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

  • 7Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

  • 17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.

  • 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  • 32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • 19Your dead men shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

  • 2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • 5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

  • 17There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

  • 2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

  • 4I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

  • 20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • 21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house.

  • 2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for He gives His beloved sleep.

  • 5You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

  • Job 20:8-9
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    8He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does the grave those who have sinned.

  • 12Nevertheless, man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • 20As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.

  • 29You hide Your face, they are troubled: You take away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

  • 14Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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    13But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

    14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

  • 19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • 48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • 11I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

  • 9How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

  • 20All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • 16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • 22He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • 4His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 14For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.

  • 14Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.