Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
New American Standard Bible
So
King James Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Holman Bible
so the one who goes down to Sheol
International Standard Version
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.
American Standard Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Amplified
“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.
Bible in Basic English
A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
Darby Translation
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
Julia Smith Translation
The cloud will end and will go away: thus he shall go down to hades and shall not come up.
King James 2000
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.
Modern King James verseion
As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,
NET Bible
As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.
New Heart English Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
The Emphasized Bible
A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
Webster
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 shall come up no more.
Youngs Literal Translation
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
8 The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 10:21
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Job 11:8
It is high as heaven; what can thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what can thou know?
Job 14:10-14
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 16:22
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Job 37:11
Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,
Psalm 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see LORD, [even] LORD in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.