A common misinterpretation of Job 14:12 is to use it as proof that there is no resurrection or afterlife at all, ignoring the poetic and contextual nature of Job's despairing speech, the broader biblical hope of resurrection expressed elsewhere like in Job 19:25-27 and New Testament teachings, or the fact that 'till the heavens be no more' allows for an eschatological awakening at the end of the age rather than absolute annihilation.
Job 14:12
King James Version (1769)
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
In Job 14:12, Job laments the finality of human death, portraying it as an unending sleep from which people do not awaken until the heavens themselves cease to exist, emphasizing the irreversible nature of mortality in this life and the profound sense of hopelessness amid suffering, reflecting ancient observations of death's grip without immediate hope of resurrection.