Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But 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.
Job 10:21before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Job 14:10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Job 37:11Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,
Isaiah 26:14[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:8-17
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou… Read the whole commentary →