Job 7:9
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
Job 10:21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Isaiah 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory 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 →