Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 decays and dries up: 12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. 13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would conceal me, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,
Acts 3:21
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on 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 were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Job 7:21
And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 10:21-22
Before I go where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 19:25-27
For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Psalm 102:26
They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out 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 grow old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Isaiah 65:17
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former 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, says the LORD, so shall your descendants 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 said he: and after that he said unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-15
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens and the earth, which now are, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire 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 night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.