Job 7:9
As a cloud is consumed and vanishes away, 1 so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more. 1
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10He will return no more to his house; 1 neither will his place know him again. 1
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead, so 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 from where I will not return, 1 to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, 1
Job 14:10But man dies; he becomes weak; 1 indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he? 1
Job 16:22For when a few years have passed, 1 I will go to a place from where I will not return.
Job 37:11Indeed, he weighs down the thick cloud with moisture; 1 he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 1
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they will not live; they are deceased, they will not arise. 1 Indeed, you came in judgment and destroyed them, and made every memory of them to perish. 1
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 →