Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
New American Standard Bible
Until the heavens are no longer,
King James Version
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Holman Bible
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.
International Standard Version
so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won't awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep."
A Conservative Version
so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Amplified
So man lies down and does not rise [again].
Until the heavens are no longer,
The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.
Bible in Basic English
So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.
Darby Translation
So man lieth down, and riseth not again; till the heavens be no more, they do not awake, nor are raised out of their sleep.
Julia Smith Translation
And man lay down and he will not rise: till the heavens be no more they shall not awake and rise from their sleep.
King James 2000
So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{so} a man lies down, and he does not arise. {Until the heavens are no more}, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.
Modern King James verseion
so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be awakened out of their sleep.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but when man sleepeth, he riseth not again, until the heaven perish: he shall not wake up nor rise out of his sleep.
NET Bible
so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.
New Heart English Bible
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
The Emphasized Bible
So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.
Webster
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens shall be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
World English Bible
so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Youngs Literal Translation
And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues To Argue His Case With God
11 As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
Acts 3:21
whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of His holy prophets that have been from of old.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Revelation 21:1
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 19:25-27
But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth:
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 102:26
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:
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
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; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors'shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Isaiah 51:6
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.
Isaiah 65:17
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Daniel 12:2
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.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
John 11:11-13
These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he'saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-15
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
2 Peter 3:7
but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.