Job 7:9
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As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

the cloud.

Job 37:11 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:

he.

Job 10:21 Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 14:10-14 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? . . .

Job 16:22 For behold short years pass away, and I am walking in a path by which I shall not return.

2 Samuel 12:23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel 14:14 We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Isaiah 38:11 I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. 9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.10Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more…
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 11:8
He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do? he is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?

Job 14:13
Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 17:16
All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 30:15
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

Lexicon
As a cloud
עָ֭נָן (‘ā·nān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud

vanishes
כָּלָ֣ה (kā·lāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

and is gone,
וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ (way·yê·laḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

so
כֵּ֥ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3651: So -- thus

he who goes down
יוֹרֵ֥ד (yō·w·rêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3381: To come or go down, descend

to Sheol
שְׁ֝א֗וֹל (’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

will never
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

rise again.
יַעֲלֶֽה׃ (ya·‘ă·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively


Additional Translations
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

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

I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

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

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
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