Job 7:9

God's Word

As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn’t come back again.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But 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 14:14

We 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.

Job 10:21

before I go away to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 11:8

⌞God’s wisdom is⌟ higher than heaven. What can you do? It is deeper than ⌞the depths⌟ of hell. What can you know?

Job 16:22

because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.

Job 17:13

If I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness,

Job 17:16

Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?”

Job 3:13

Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.

Job 30:15

Terrors are directed toward me. They blow away my dignity like the wind. My prosperity vanishes like a cloud.

Job 37:11

Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

Isaiah 26:14

The wicked are dead. They are no longer alive. The spirits of the dead won’t rise. You have punished them, destroyed them, and wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 38:11

I 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.