New English Translation
Job 7:9
9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up 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 that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness. 8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. 10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more. 11“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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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 clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
- Job 10:21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he?
- Job 16:22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
- 2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”
- 2 Samuel 14:14Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
- Psalms 39:13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
- Isaiah 38:11“I thought, ‘I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with 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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