2Sa 12:23, 14:14, Job 7:8-10, 14:10-14, Isa 38:11 | ESV | STEP | But now he is dead . Why should I fast ? Can I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

2 Samuel 12:23

23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, ^abut he will not return to me.”

2 Samuel 14:14

14 We must all die; we are ^blike water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means ^cso that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

Job 7:8-10

8 ^dThe eye of him who sees me will behold me no more;
while your eyes are on me, ^eI shall be gone.
9 As ^fthe cloud fades and vanishes,
so he who ^ggoes down to Sheol does not come up;
10 he ^hreturns no more to his house,
nor does his ⁱplace know him anymore.

Job 14:10-14

10 But a man dies and is laid low;
man breathes his last, and ^jwhere is he?
11 ^kAs waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,
12 so a man lies down and rises not again;
till ^lthe heavens are no more he will not awake
or be ^mroused out of his sleep.
13 Oh that you would ⁿhide me in ^oSheol,
that you would ^pconceal me ^quntil your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man dies, shall he live again?
All the days of my ^rservice I would ^swait,
till my renewal ^{▼▼Or relief} should come.

Isaiah 38:11

11 I said, I shall not see the Lord,
the Lord ^uin the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.