“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.”
"So man lies down and does not rise again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake, nor be roused out of his sleep." The finality is absolute. Man does not rise until the heavens themselves pass away—an eschatological impossibility. The image of sleep suggests that human death is unlike rest; it is permanent unconsciousness from which no waking is possible. The verse denies any hope of afterlife renewal.
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