Job 7:9
Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.
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In Context
8Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
10He will not return again to his house, nor will his own place know him any longer.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Would I be able to bring him back anymore? Instead, I will go to him. Yet truly, he will not return to me.”
Job 10:21before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,
Job 14:10Truly, when a man dies, and has been left unprotected, and has decayed, I ask you where is he?
Job 16:22And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!
Job 37:11Crops desire clouds, and the clouds scatter their light.
Isaiah 26:14Let not the dead live; let not the giants rise up again. For this reason, you have visited and destroyed them, and you have perished all remembrance of them.
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 →