Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 14:10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 37:11Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; he spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
Isaiah 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
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 →