Job 7:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.”
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“As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”
King James Version · Public Domain“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 7:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
- Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 14:12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
- Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- 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.
- Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
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