Job 10:21

10:21 before I depart, never to return,

to the land of darkness

and the deepest shadow,

Job 14:10-14

14:10 But man dies and is powerless;

he expires – and where is he?

14:11 As water disappears from the sea,

or a river drains away and dries up,

14:12 so man lies down and does not rise;

until the heavens are no more,

they will not awake

nor arise from their sleep.

The Possibility of Another Life

14:13 “O that you would hide me in Sheol,

and conceal me till your anger has passed!

O that you would set me a time

and then remember me!

14:14 If a man dies, will he live again?

All the days of my hard service I will wait

until my release comes.

Job 16:22

16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few,

and then I will go on the way of no return.

Job 16:2

16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.

What miserable comforters are you all!

Job 12:23

12:23 He makes nations great, and destroys them;

he extends the boundaries of nations

and disperses them.

Job 14:14

14:14 If a man dies, will he live again?

All the days of my hard service I will wait

until my release comes.

Psalms 39:13

39:13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy

before I pass away.

Isaiah 38:11

38:11 “I thought,

‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living,

I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.