Holy Scripture
Job 14:12
A church father on this verse
“By calling death "sleep," Job has clearly given us the hope for resurrection. However, he says, we will not awake "until heavens are no more." That is obvious, because, as Isaiah said, it is necessary that "they shall be rolled together like a scroll." It is necessary that all their powers are shaken, that the sun and…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12And man that has lain down in death shall certainly not rise again Till the heaven be dissolved, And they shall not awake from their sleep.
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10But a man that has died is utterly gone; And when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
11For the sea wastes in length of time, And a river fails and is dried up.
— Job 14:12 —
13For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, And hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, And thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!
14For if a man should die, shall he live again, Having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?