Job 7:9
A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8Nor shall see me—the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.
10He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But, now, that he is dead, wherefore should I go on fasting? can I bring him back again? I am going unto him, but, he, will not come back unto me.
Job 10:21Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:
Job 14:10Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Job 16:22When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
Job 37:11Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
Isaiah 26:14The dead, come not to life again, The shades, do not arise,—Therefore, thou hast visited and destroyed them, And caused 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 →