Job 7:9

As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

8The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: [thou fixest] thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.

10He will return no more to his house, and his place will not recognize him any more.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast then? can I restore him again? I am going to him; but he will not return to me.

Job 10:21Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

Job 14:10But man dieth, and lieth powerless: yea, the son of earth departeth—and where is he?

Job 16:22For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.

Job 37:11Also with moisture he loadeth the cloud; [and] he scattereth the cloud of his lightning;

Isaiah 26:14[They are] dead, they will not live [again]; [they are] departed, they will not rise [again]; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made to perish every memorial 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 →

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