Psalms 39:13

"O spare me, that I may recover strength,

Before I go hence and be no more."

"The psalmist here no longer wishes for death, yet he expects it, and requests of God a little breathing space."[23]

"Nothing is to be made of the expression, `and be no more,' which was merely David's way of mentioning death."[24] We have often called attention to the fact that Old Testament heroes certainly believed in the resurrection, although they did not have the vivid and detailed assurances of it which belong to Christians in the New Testament.