John Trapp on Job 14:12

Verſe 12. So man lieth down] ſc. in the duſt of death, or in the bed of the grave; his dormitory, till the laſt day.

Ʋt ſomnus mortis, ſic lectus imago ſepulchri.

And riſeth not] ſcil. To live again among men: ſo Pſalm 78. Man is compared to a wind, which when it is paſt, returneth not again. If it be objected, that we read of three in the old Teſtament, and five in the new raiſed from death to life: beſides, thoſe many that aroſe and came out of the graves after Chriſts reſurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many, Matth. 27.52, 53. It is anſwered, 1. Theſe few raiſed by Gods extraordinary power, do not infringe the truth of what the Scripture here and elſewhere affirmeth of all mankind according to the ordinary courſe of nature. 2. Even thoſe men alſo afterwards died again, and vaniſhed; no more to return or appear again in this world.

Till the heavens be no more] i. e. Never (ſay ſome interpreters) to wit, vi ſuâ by his own ſtrength, and to a better condition in the land of the living: ſo the word until is uſed, 2 Sam. 6.13. Matth. 5.26. and 1.25. ut piè credimus. How ſound and clear Job was in the point of the Reſurrection, we ſhall ſee, chap. 19. and becauſe he falls upon it in the words next following here, ſome underſtand theſe words thus, They ſhall not riſe till the general reſurrections, when theſe heavens ſhall be changed, and renewed, Pſalm 102.25, 26. Iſaiah 65.17. 2 Peter 3.7.10, 11. Rev. 21.1.

They ſhall not awake] Out of the ſleep of death: nor be raiſed] viz. by the ſound of the laſt trump, till the laſt day. But raiſed they ſhall be, and ſleep no more, viz. when the heavens ſhall be no more. And till that time the bodies of the Saints are laid in the grave, as in a bed of down; or of ſpices, to mellow and ripen: this is matter of joy and triumph, Iſa. 26.19. Dan. 12.2. when they were to loſe all: ſo Heb. 11.35. The wicked alſo ſleep in the grave, Dan. 12.2. but ſhall awake to everlaſting ſhame and contempt, ib. their ſick ſleep ſhall have a woful waking, for they ſhall be raiſed by vertue of Chriſts judiciary power, and by the curſe of the law, to look upon him whom they have pierced, and to hear from him that dreadful diſcedite, Depart ye curſed &c.