KJV ORIGINAL
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
So when a person dies and lies down, they don't get up again. Until the heavens themselves pass away, they won't wake up or be raised from their final sleep.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is saying that when people die, they stay dead and won't come back to life until the end of time itself.
📚 Historical Context
Job spoke these words during his intense suffering, when he had lost everything and was grappling with questions about life, death, and God's justice. In Job's time, the Hebrew understanding of resurrection and afterlife was not as developed as it would become later in biblical history. Job was expressing the seeming finality of death from his current perspective of despair.
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