Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
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.
A Conservative Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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.
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 Nor shall see me - the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not. 9 A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up: 10 He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But, now, that he is dead, wherefore should I go on fasting? can I bring him back again? I am going unto him, but, he, will not come back unto me.
Job 30:15
There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.
2 Samuel 14:14
For, when we, die, we become as water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, - therefore doth God not take away the life, but deviseth plans so as not to thrust out from him, a fugitive.
Job 10:21
Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:
Job 11:8
The heights of the heavens, what canst thou do? Depths deeper than hades, what canst thou know?
Job 14:10-14
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Job 16:22
When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
Job 37:11
Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
Psalm 39:13
Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.
Isaiah 38:11
I said - I shall not see Yah, Yah, in the land of the living, I shall discern the son of earth no longer, with the dwellers in the quiet land.