Job 7:9

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!'"

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

2 Samuel 14:14

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

Job 10:21

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Job 11:8

It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- what can you know?

Job 14:10-14

But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?

Job 16:22

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

Isaiah 38:11

"I thought, 'I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The cloud

Bible References

The cloud

Job 37:11
He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

He

Job 10:21
before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
Job 14:10
But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?
Job 16:22
For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!'"
2 Samuel 14:14
Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.
Psalm 39:13
Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
Isaiah 38:11
"I thought, 'I will no longer see the Lord in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

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