Job’s View of the Death of the Righteous and the Afterlife

(Check out the puzzle for Job chapters 22-27 at the end of chart.  Puzzles on earlier chapter can be found at the end of previous articles concerning Job).

 

He saw it as a sleep.

  • Job 3:13; Job 14:12
  • Daniel 12:2 – It was only the physical body in the grave that had the appearance of sleep.  The spirit had gone back to God – Ecclesiastes 12:7
  • John 11:11-14
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:14

He saw it as a place of rest and freedom from trouble.

  • Job 3:17-18; Job 3:13
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
  • Hebrews 4:9-11
  • Revelation 14:13

He saw it as …

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