Job 7 · Verse 9

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 7:9, King James Version

Job 7:9 in other translations

BSBAs a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
WEBAs the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
ASVAs the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
YLTConsumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
DARBYThe cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
BBEA cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
WebsterAs the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

What does Job 7:9 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
9. (2Sa 12:23). the grave--the Sheol, or place of departed spirits, not disproving Job's belief in the resurrection. It merely means, "He shall come up no more" in the present order of things.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 9 As the cloud is consumed - As the cloud is dissipated, so is the breath of those that go down to the grave. As that cloud shall never return, so shall it be with the dead; they return no more to sojourn with the living. See on the following verses.

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 7:9 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.

כָּלָ֣הka.Lahit vanishesH3615
עָ֭נָן'A.nona cloudH6051
וַיֵּלַ֑ךְvai.ye.Lakhand it has goneH1980
כֵּ֥ןkenthusH3651
יוֹרֵ֥דyo.Red[one who] has gone downH3381
שְׁ֝א֗וֹלShe.olSheolH7585
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
יַעֲלֶֽה\׃ya.'a.Lehhe will come upH5927

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

Cross references for Job 7:9

  • Job 10:21

    Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

  • 2 Samuel 14:14

    For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

  • Job 30:15

    Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

  • Job 16:22

    When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • Job 14:10-14

    But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! …

  • Psalms 39:13

    O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

  • 2 Samuel 12:23

    But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

  • Isaiah 38:11

    I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 37:11

    Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

  • Job 11:8

    It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the cloud.
37:11
he.
10:21; 14:10-14; 16:22; 2Sa 12:23; 14:14; Ps 39:13; Isa 38:11

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

Context

  • Job 7:8

    The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

  • 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.

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Job 7:9 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		La nube se consume, y se va: así el que desciende al sepulcro no subirá;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La nuée disparaît et s’en va; ainsi celui qui descend au shéol n’en remonte pas,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Wolke schwindet und fährt dahin; so steigt, wer in den Scheol hinabfährt, nicht wieder herauf.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.