Job 7:9
When a cloud disappears, it's gone, just as anyone who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
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8Those watching me won't see me anymore; your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
10They will never return home, and the people they knew will forget them.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But now that he's dead, what's the point for me to go on fasting? Can I bring him back again? One day I will die and go to him, but he will never come back to me.”
Job 10:21before I go to where I shall never return from, the land of darkness and the shadow of death—
Job 14:10But human beings die, their strength dwindles away; they perish, and where are they then?
Job 16:22For in a few short years I shall go down that road from which I shall not return.”
Job 37:11He fills the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning from them.
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they will not live again; they will not rise from the grave. Lord, you punished them and destroyed them—even wiping out every memory about 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 →