Job 14:12-21

So man lies down and does not rise [again]. Until the heavens are no longer, The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep. ¶“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]! “If a man dies, will he live again? I will wait all the days of my struggle Until my change and release will come. [John 5:25; 6:40; 1 Thess 4:16] “[Then] You will call, and I will answer You; You will long for [me] the work of Your hands. “But now You number [each of] my steps; You do not observe nor take note of my sin. “My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my wickedness [from Your view]. ¶“But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles into nothing, And as the rock is moved from its place, Water wears away the stones, Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth, So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man. “You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on; You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living]. “His sons achieve honor, and he does not know it; They become insignificant, and he is not aware of it.