Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will 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.
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 [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}. 9 A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up. 10 He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he [is] dead. Why [should I be] fasting? [Am] I able to return him again? I [am] going to him, but he cannot return to me."
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as [by] the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.
2 Samuel 14:14
For {we must certainly die}, and [we are] as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.
Job 10:21
Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,
Job 11:8
{It is higher than the heaven}; what can you do? [It is] deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
Job 14:10-14
"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?
Job 16:22
Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.
Job 37:11
Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters [the] clouds.
Psalm 39:13
Look [away] from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among [the] inhabitants of [the] world.