Job 7:9
New Revised Standard Version
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

Contemporary English Version
I will disappear in the grave or vanish from sight like a passing cloud.

New American Bible
As a cloud dissolves and vanishes, so whoever goes down to Sheol shall not come up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

the cloud.

Job 37:11 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:

he.

Job 10:21 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 14:10-14 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? . . .

Job 16:22 For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

2 Samuel 12:23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel 14:14 We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Isaiah 38:11 I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. 9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.10Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more…
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 14:13
Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 17:16
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 30:15
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

Job 7:8
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