Job 7 · Verse 10

Job 7:10

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 7:10, King James Version

Job 7:10 in other translations

BSBHe never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
WEBHe will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.
ASVHe shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
YLTHe turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
DARBYHe shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him again.
BBEHe will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
WebsterHe shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

What does Job 7:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. (Psa 103:16). The Oriental keenly loves his dwelling. In Arabian elegies the desertion of abodes by their occupants is often a theme of sorrow. Grace overcomes this also (Lu 18:29; Ac 4:34).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more - He does not mean that he shall be annihilated but that he shall never more become an inhabitant of the earth. The word שאול, which we properly enough translate grave, here signifies also the state of the dead, hades, and sometimes any deep pit, or even hell itself.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 7:7-16

Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall…

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Job 7:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
יָשׁ֣וּבya.Shuvhe will returnH7725
ע֣וֹדodagainH5750
לְבֵית֑וֹle.vei.Toto house hisH1004
וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
יַכִּירֶ֖נּוּya.ki.Re.nuit will acknowledge himH5234
ע֣וֹדodagainH5750
מְקֹמֽוֹ\׃me.ko.Moplace hisH4725

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 7:10

  • Job 8:18

    If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

  • Job 20:9

    The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Psalms 103:16

    For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Job 27:23

    Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

  • Job 27:21

    The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
shall return.
8:18; 20:9; Ps 103:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 7:9

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

  • Job 7:10

    He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 7:11

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

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Job 7:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No tornará más á su casa, ni su lugar le conocerá más.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il ne revient plus dans sa maison, et son lieu ne le reconnaît plus.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Nicht mehr kehrt er zurück zu seinem Hause, und seine Stätte erkennt ihn nicht mehr.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nec revertetur ultra in domum suam, neque cognoscet eum amplius locus ejus.