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Job 7:9

Death and loss

7 Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

8 The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

10 He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.

11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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BSB
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
KJV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
WEB
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
ASV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
DARBY
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
BLB
As a cloud is consumed and goes away, so the one going down [to] Sheol does not ascend.
ÅB
En sky blir borte og farer avsted; slik er det med den som farer ned til dødsriket - han stiger ikke opp derfra,
OTB
En sky forsvinner, og den er ikke mer,
Så den som stiger ned til Sheol, kommer ikke tilbake.
B1930
En sky blir borte og farer avsted; således er det med den som farer ned til dødsriket - han stiger ikke op derfra,

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Job 10:21

    before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

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  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

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  • Job 30:15

    Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

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  • Job 16:22

    For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

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  • Job 14:10–14

    But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

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  • Psalms 39:13

    Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

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  • 2 Samuel 12:23

    But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

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  • Isaiah 38:11

    I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

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