Job 14:13
The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
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- Isa 26:20-21 : 20 Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms! Close your doors behind you! Hide for a little while, until his angry judgment is over! 21 For look, the LORD is coming out of the place where he lives, to punish the sin of those who live on the earth. The earth will display the blood shed on it; it will no longer cover up its slain.
- Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil. 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
- Mark 13:32 : 32 Be Ready!“But as for that day or hour no one knows it– neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son– except the Father.
- Luke 23:42 : 42 Then he said,“Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.”
- Acts 1:7 : 7 He told them,“You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.
- Acts 17:31 : 31 because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
- Gen 8:1 : 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.
- Job 3:17-19 : 17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. 18 There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. 19 Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
- Ps 106:4 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver,
- Isa 12:1 : 1 At that time you will say:“I praise you, O LORD, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
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20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
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18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
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14O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
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46How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)
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14The Lord Will Not Relent from the Threatened Judgment Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!
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19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:
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13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
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3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
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5For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
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7Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
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21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
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15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?
15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
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10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
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23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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8A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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3O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
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13in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.
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17O LORD, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!
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15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
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9“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
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13For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
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17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
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3O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.
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12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)
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6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
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5He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.