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Job 7:9
9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into 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.
- 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 but a breath; my eyes will not see goodness again! 8The eye that sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one descending into Sheol does not come up; 10he will never return to his house, his place does not know him. 11“So I will not keep silent; I will speak in the distress of my spirit, I will complain in bitterness of 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 cloud with moisture; He scatters His cloud of lightning.
- Job 10:21before I depart, and never return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—and where is he?
- Job 16:22“For the number of years will come to pass, and then I will go the way of no return.
- 2 Samuel 12:23But now that he has died, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? It is I who will be going to him, but he will never return to me.”
- 2 Samuel 14:14For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.
- Psalms 39:13Hear my prayer, Adonai, and listen to my cry— do not keep silent at my tears. For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Isaiah 38:11I said: “I will not see Adonai, Adonai, in the land of the living. I will look on humanity no longer 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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