But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I’ll go to him, but he will never return to me.’
Job 7:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I’ll go to him, but he will never return to me.’
We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.
They are higher than the heavens #– #what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol #– #what can you know?
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol, or will we descend together to the dust?
Now I would certainly be lying down in peace; I would be asleep. Then I would be at rest
Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
He saturates clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
The dead do not live; departed spirits do not rise up. Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them; you have wiped out all memory of them.
I said: I will never see the Lord, the Lord in the land of the living; I will not look on humanity any longer with the inhabitants of what is passing away.