Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; 12 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. 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
Cross References
Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Acts 3:21
Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was 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 were gone; and there was no more sea.
Job 7:21
And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
Job 10:21-22
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
Job 19:25-27
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
Isaiah 51:6
Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
Isaiah 65:17
For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.
Daniel 12:2
And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
John 11:11-13
These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.
Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-15
For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.
2 Peter 3:7
But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.
2 Peter 3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.