so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
Cross References
Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Psalm 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning--
Treasury of Scripture
So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
So man
Job 10:21,22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-21
For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity…
till the heavens
Job 19:25-27
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: …
Psalm 102:26
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
awake
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
