Holy Scripture
Job 14:13
A church father on this verse
“The meaning is, "Oh that in the time when you were inflamed with rage against me, you would have kept me in custody in the netherworld—there, in fact, custody is not due to faults—and that you would not have forgotten me completely but would have set a time for my custody there!" Job has given us a reason for his desi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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!
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11For the sea wastes in length of time, And a river fails and is dried up.
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.
— Job 14:13 —
14For if a man should die, shall he live again, Having accomplished the days of his life? I will wait till I exist again?
15Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: But do not thou reject the work of thy hands.