Job 14:12

Job says man lies down in death and does not wake until the heavens pass. He pictures death as a long, unbroken sleep.

Cross-references · 23

• Job 10:21–22before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
• Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
• Eccl 3:19–21For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
• Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• 2 Pet 3:10–13But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
• Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
• Isa 66:22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
• Ps 102:26They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
• 1 Th 4:14–15For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
• Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
• 2 Pet 3:7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
• Dan 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• Job 19:25–27But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
• Rev 20:11Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
• Isa 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
• Rev 21:1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
• Isa 65:17For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
• Eccl 12:5when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.
• Acts 3:21Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
• Rom 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
• John 11:11–13After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

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