Job 7:9
A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, || So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
10He does not turn to his house again, || Nor does his place discern him again.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23And now, he has died, why [is] this—I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, and he does not return to me.”
Job 10:21Before I go, and do not return, || To a land of darkness and death-shade,
Job 14:10And a man dies, and becomes weak, || And man expires, and where [is] he?
Job 16:22When a few years come, || Then I go [on] the path of no return.”
Job 37:11Indeed, by filling He presses out a cloud, [and] His light scatters a cloud.
Isaiah 26:14Dead—they do not live, || Rephaim, they do not rise, || Therefore You have inspected and destroy them, || Indeed, you destroy all their memory.
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 →