Job 7:9

New English Translation

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But 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 14:14

Certainly 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.

Job 10:21

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Job 11:8

It is higher than the heavens – what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol – what can you know?

Job 16:22

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

Job 17:13

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:16

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

Job 3:13

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

Isaiah 26:14

The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

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.