But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Job 7:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead) shall come up no more. American Standard Version (1901) As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. Common English Bible A cloud breaks apart and moves on— like the one who descends to the grave and won’t rise, Catholic Public Domain Version Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. |
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
If I look for Sheol as mine house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
Terrors are turned upon me, They chase mine honour as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.