Job Speaks of the Finality of Death
“aMan, who is born of a woman,Is short-lived and bfull of turmoil.Job 5:7Eccl 2:232 “aLike a flower he comes forth and withers;He also flees like ba shadow and does not remain.Ps 90:5, 6; 103:15; Is 40:6, 7; James 1:10; 1 Pet 1:24Job 8:93 “You also aopen Your eyes upon himAnd bbring him into judgment with Yourself.Ps 8:4; 144:3Ps 143:24 “aWho can make a clean thing out of the unclean?No one! Is 1:18; 1+@John 1:7Job 15:14; 25:4; Ps 51:55 “Since his days are determined,The anumber of his months is with You in Your control,And You have made his limits so he cannot pass his allotted time.Job 21:216 “O God aturn your gaze from him so that he may rest,Until he fulfills his day on earth like a hired man.Job 7:19; Ps 39:13
7 “For there is hope for a tree,If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, but there is no such hope for man.8 “Though its roots grow old in the earthAnd its stump dies in the dry soil,9 Yet at the scent of water the stump of the tree will flourishAnd bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.10 “But the brave, strong aman must die and lie face down;Man bbreathes his last, and where is he?Job 3:13; 14:10-15Job 13:911 “As awater evaporates from the sea,And a river drains and dries up,Is 19:512 So aman lies down and does not rise again.Until the heavens are no longer,The dead will not awake nor be raised from their sleep.Job 3:13
13 “Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol ,That You would conceal me auntil Your wrath is past,That You would set a definite time and then remember me and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart!Is 26:2014 “If a man dies, will he live again?I will wait all the days of my struggleUntil my change and release will come. John 5:25; 6:40; 1+@Thess 4:1615 “Then You will call, and I will answer You;You will long for me athe work of Your hands.Job 10:316 “But now You anumber each of my steps;You do not bobserve nor take note of my sin.Job 31:4; 34:21; Ps 139:1-3; Prov 5:21Job 10:617 “My transgression is asealed up in a bag,And You cover my wickedness from Your view.Deut 32:32-34
18 “But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles into nothing,And as the rock is moved from its place,19 Water wears away the stones,Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,So You O Lord adestroy the hope of man.Job 7:620 “You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he apasses on;You change his appearance and send him away from the presence of the living.Job 4:20; 20:721 “His sons achieve honor, and he does not know it;They become insignificant, and ahe is not aware of it.Eccl 9:522 “But his body lamenting its decay grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over the loss of himself.”