Job 14:12

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Summary

Job 14:12

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

So man

Till the heavens

Awake

1 Thessalonians 4:14

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:4

Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

So man

before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.

At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

Till the heavens

"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.

They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

"Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.

Take notice! I'm about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things won't be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

"For as the new heavens and the new earth that I am about to make will endure before me," says the LORD, "so will your descendants and your name endure.

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."

He must remain in heaven until the time of universal restitution, which God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty

Now by that same word, the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

Then I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

Awake

"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,

Why haven't you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I'm about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won't be around!"

"But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.''

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him.

General references

"While someone is among the living, hope remains," because "it is better to be a living dog than to be a dead lion."

"Your ancestors where are they? And the prophets do they live forever?