Job 14:12

Easy To Read Version

When a person dies, he lies down\par and he doesn’t get up.\par The skies will all disappear\par before a dead man will wake up.\par No. People don’t wake up from that sleep.\par

Cross References

Job 3:13

If I had died when I was born,\par I would be at peace now.\par I wish I were asleep and at rest\par

Job 30:23

I know you will lead me to my death.\par Every living person must die.\par

Job 7:21

Why don’t you just pardon me\par for doing wrong?\par Why don’t you just forgive me\par for my sins?\par Soon I will die and be in my grave.\par Then you will search for me,\par but I will be gone.”\par

Job 7:9

A cloud disappears and is gone.\par In the same way, a person dies\par and is buried in the grave\par and he won’t come back.\par

Psalm 102:26

The world and sky will end,\par but you will live forever!\par They will wear out like clothes.\par And, like clothes, you will change them.\par They will all be changed.\par

Psalm 90:5

You sweep us away.\par Our life is like a dream,\par and in the morning,\par we are gone.\par We are like grass.\par

Ecclesiastes 11:8

You should enjoy every day of your life, no matter how long you live! But remember that you will die. And you will be dead much longer than you were alive! And after you are dead, you can’t do anything!

Ecclesiastes 12:5

You will be afraid of high places. You will be afraid of tripping over every small thing in your path. Your hair will become white like the flowers on an almond tree. You will drag yourself along like a grasshopper when you walk. You will lose your desire \{to live\}. {\cf2\super [45]} And then you will go to your eternal home (the grave). The mourners {\cf2\super [46]} will gather in the streets \{as they carry your body to the grave\}.

Isaiah 26:19

\{But the Lord says,\}\par “Your people have died,\par but they will live again.\par The bodies of my people\par will rise from death.\par Dead people in the ground,\par stand and be happy!\par The dew covering you is like\par the dew sparkling in the light of a new day.\par It shows a new time is coming when the earth\par will give up the dead people\par that are in it.”\par

Isaiah 51:6

Look up to the heavens!\par Look around you at the earth below!\par The skies will disappear\par like clouds of smoke.\par The earth will become\par like worthless old clothes.\par The people on earth will die,\par but my Salvation will continue forever.\par My goodness will never end.\par

Isaiah 65:17

“I will make a new heaven and a new earth.\par People will not remember the past.\par They won’t remember any of those things.\par

Isaiah 66:22

“I will make a new world—and the new heavens and the new earth \{will last forever\}. In the same way, your names and your children will always be with me.

Daniel 12:2

Many of the people that are dead and buried {\cf2\super [133]} will wake up. Some of them will wake up to have life forever. But some will wake up to have shame and disgrace forever.

Matthew 24:35

The whole world, earth and sky, will be destroyed, but the words I have said will never be destroyed!

Acts 3:21

But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time when all things will be made right again. God told about this time when he spoke long ago through his holy prophets.

Romans 8:20

Everything God made was changed to be like it was worth nothing. It did not want to change, but God decided to change it. But there was this hope:

Ephesians 5:14

And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say:

2 Peter 3:7

And that same word \{of God\} is keeping the skies and the earth that we have now. The skies and the earth are being kept to be destroyed by fire. The skies and the earth are kept for the day of judgment and the destruction of all people who are against God.

Revelation 20:11

Then I saw a large white throne. I saw the One who was sitting on the throne. Earth and sky ran away from him and disappeared.

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had disappeared. Now there was no sea.