Reference

Job 14:12

Sheol / The Grave Whole-Person Death Death as Sleep

“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Why This Verse Was Tagged

Sheol / The Grave

Semantic Discovery

90% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Whole-Person Death

Keyword Match

90% relevance

This verse contains specific terms directly associated with this theme.

Death as Sleep

Keyword Match

85% relevance

This verse contains specific terms directly associated with this theme.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Sheol / The Grave

The verse describes a state of permanent non-awakening for humans until a distant cosmic event, which could be interpreted as a general statement about mortality rather than specifically referencing a physical grave or a spiritual underworld like Sheol.

Whole-Person Death

The verse could be interpreted as referring to a physical sleep that is so profound it is like death, but not necessarily an unconscious state of the soul, leaving open the possibility of a conscious existence apart from the body.

Death as Sleep

The verse uses "sleep" as a direct descriptor for the state of death, but it does not necessarily imply that death *is* sleep in a metaphorical sense, as it could be simply using a common idiom to describe a state of unconsciousness without equating the two.

Sheol / The Grave

Related Verses

Job 12:14

“Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.”

Job 27:19

“The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.”

Job 7:9

“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”

Job 14:14

“If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.”

Job 14:10

“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”

Thematic Connections

Sheol / The Grave Whole-Person Death Death as Sleep

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