God’s Word Translation
Job 7:9
9As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn’t 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, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good. 8The eye that watches over me will no longer see me. Your eye will look for me, but I’ll be gone. As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn’t come back again. 10He doesn’t come back home again, and his household doesn’t recognize him anymore. 11So I won’t keep my mouth shut, but I will speak from the distress that is in my spirit and complain about the bitterness in 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 37:11Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.
- Job 10:21before I go away to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Job 14:10But a human dies and is powerless. A person breathes his last breath, and where is he?
- Job 16:22because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.
- 2 Samuel 12:23But why should I fast now that he’s dead? Can I bring him back? ⌞Someday⌟ I’ll go to him, but he won’t come back to me.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14We are all going to die; we are all like water that is poured on the ground and can’t be gathered up. But doesn’t God forgive a person? He never plans to keep a banished person in exile.
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.
- Isaiah 38:11I thought that I wouldn’t see the Lord in this world. Even with all the people in the world, I thought I would never see another person.
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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