Job 7:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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

⁹ 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)

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Common English Bible

⁹ A cloud breaks apart and moves on— like the one who descends to the grave and won’t rise,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Job 7:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But 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 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Job 10:21

before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Job 11:8

It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Job 16:22

For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 37:11

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not live; shades do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.