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Job 7:9
Job 7:9 is verse 9 of Job chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
King James Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
World English Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Job 7:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
9 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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Job 14:11As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
Job 14:12so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will not be awakened or roused from sleep.
Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
2 Samuel 12:23But 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.”
2 Samuel 14:14For 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.
Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Isaiah 38:11I 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.