Job 7:9

New International Reader's Version

When a cloud disappears, it’s gone forever. And anyone who goes down to the grave never returns.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he’s dead. So why should I continue to go without food? Can I bring him back to life again? Someday I’ll go to him. But he won’t return to me.”

2 Samuel 14:14

All of us must die. We are like water spilled on the ground. It can’t be put back into the jar. But that is not what God desires. Instead, he finds a way to bring back anyone who was driven away from him.

Job 10:21

Turn away before I go to the place I can’t return from. It’s the land of gloom and total darkness.

Job 11:8

They are higher than the heavens above. What can you do? They are deeper than the deepest parts of the earth below. What can you know?

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass by. Then I’ll take the path of no return.

Job 17:13

Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.

Job 17:16

Will hope go down to the gates of death with me? Will we go down together into the dust of the grave?”

Job 3:13

If all of that hadn’t happened, I would be lying down in peace. I’d be asleep and at rest in the grave.

Job 30:15

Terrors sweep over me. My honor is driven away as if by the wind. My safety vanishes like a cloud.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture. He scatters his lightning through them.

Psalm 39:13

Leave me alone. Let me enjoy life again before I die.”

Isaiah 26:14

Those other masters are now dead. They will never live again. Their spirits won’t rise from the dead. You punished them and destroyed them. You wiped out all memory of them.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, “Lord, I’ll never see you again while I’m still alive. I’ll never see people anymore. I’ll never again be with those who live in this world.