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Job 7:9
9Clouds disappear and you never see them again. That is like people who die and go into their graves. They do not come back again.
Job 7:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
- New International Version (NIV)As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
- English Standard Version (ESV)As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
- New King James Version (NKJV)As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
Context of Job 7:9
7Remember, God, that my life is as short as a breath. I know that I will never be happy again. 8People who can see me now will not see me any more. You will look for me, but I will not be there. Clouds disappear and you never see them again. That is like people who die and go into their graves. They do not come back again. 10They do not come back to live in their homes. People forget about them. 11So I must continue to speak. I will tell you how upset I am. I am angry because of what has happened to me. So I must complain.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:9 word by word
כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ כֵּ֥ן יוֹרֵ֥ד שְׁ֝א֗וֹל לֹ֣א יַעֲלֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:9
- Job 37:11He fills the clouds with lots of water. He sends the lightning through the clouds.
- Job 10:21I will soon go to the dark place where there is no hope. I will never come back from that place.
- Job 14:10But when people lose their strength and they die, that is the end. After they die, where do they go?
- Job 16:22I only have a few more years to live. I will die and I will never again return to this earth.
- 2 Samuel 12:23But now the child is dead. Even if I fast and I pray, I cannot bring him back to me. One day, I will go to the place where he is. But he will never come back here to me.’
- 2 Samuel 14:14We must all die one day. When that happens, we are like water that is poured on the ground. We cannot pick it up again. But God does not remove our lives from us. Instead, he finds a way to bring us back to him when we have gone far away.
- Psalms 39:13Stop being angry with me, so that I can be happy again before I die.
- Isaiah 38:11I thought, ‘I will not see the Lord again, while I live in this world. I will no longer see the people who live in the world. I will no longer live among them.’
Commentaries on Job 7:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9As the cloud is consumed - As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go down to the grave. As that cloud shall never return, so shall it be with the dead; they return no more to sojourn with the living. See on the following verses.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away - This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until they wholly vanish. For an illustration of a similar phrase, see the notes at Isaiah 44:22. To the grave - - שׁאול she'ôl Septuagint, ̓ ̔́ͅ eis hadēn to Hades. The word may mean grave, or the place of departed spirits; see Isaiah 5:14, note; Isaiah 14:9, note; compare the notes at Job 10:21-22. Either signification…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9goes down to Sheol: This is the first plain mention of Sheol in Job. It is described as: A place of rest from the pressures and distinctions of earth (3:13–19). "Darkness" (10:21–22; 17:13). Deep in the earth (11:8). Covered in dust (17:16). The fate of all living beings from which no one can return (30:23; 10:21; see Genesis 37:25; 2 Samuel 12:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. (2Sa 12:23). the grave--the Sheol, or place of departed spirits, not disproving Job's belief in the resurrection. It merely means, "He shall come up no more" in the present order of things.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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