Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

Holman Bible

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As the cloud
ענן 
`anan 
Usage: 87

ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

so he that goeth down
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

to the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

shall come up
עלה 
`alah 
Usage: 890

Context Readings

Don'T Forget!

8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Cross References

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.

Job 30:15

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

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 10:21

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

Job 11:8

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

Job 14:10-14

But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Job 16:22

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

Job 37:11

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

Psalm 39:13

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

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.

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