Job 7:9 “As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not…”

Job 7:9

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

World English Bible

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

American Standard Version

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Geneva Bible 1599

As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.

Darby Translation

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

Young's Literal Translation

Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

Bible in Basic English

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

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Cross references

“the cloud”

Job 37:11

Job 37:11 · BSB

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

“he”

Job 10:21 2 Samuel 14:14 Job 14:10–14 Job 16:22 2 Samuel 12:23 Psalm 39:13

Job 10:21 · BSB

before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

2 Samuel 14:14 · BSB

For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

Job 14:10–14 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 16:22 · BSB

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

2 Samuel 12:23 · BSB

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Psalm 39:13 · BSB

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Also

Job 30:15 Job 11:8

Job 30:15 · BSB

Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

Job 11:8 · BSB

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

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