English Standard Version
Job 7:9
9As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
Context of Job 7:9
7"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. 8The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; 10he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore. 11"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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 loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
- Job 10:21before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 16:22For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
- 2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
- 2 Samuel 14:14We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"
- Isaiah 38:11I said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
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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