Job 14:12
Good News Translation
people die, never to rise. They will never wake up while the sky endures; they will never stir from their sleep.

New Revised Standard Version
so mortals lie down and do not rise again; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake or be roused out of their sleep.

Contemporary English Version
we fall into the sleep of death, never to rise again, until the sky disappears.

New American Bible
So mortals lie down, never to rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.

So man

Job 10:21,22 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: . . .

Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Ecclesiastes 3:19-21 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity. . . .

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

till the heavens

Job 19:25-27 For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth. . . .

Psalm 102:26 They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

Isaiah 65:17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Acts 3:21 Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.

Romans 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.

2 Peter 3:7,10-13 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of the ungodly men. . . .

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

Revelation 21:1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

awake

Job 3:13 For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 7:21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, my slain shall rise again: awake, and give praise, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is the dew of the light: and the land of the giants thou shalt pull down into ruin.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

John 11:11-13 These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. . . .

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

1 Thessalonians 4:14,15 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again: even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
11As if the waters should depart out of the sea, and an emptied river should be dried up; 12So man when he is fallen asleep shall not rise again; till the heavens be broken, he shall not awake, nor rise up out of his sleep.13Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?…
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Psalm 90:5
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Job 14:11
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