Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave 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.
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 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 has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone. 9 As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave 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 shall not return to me.
Job 30:15
Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must all die, and we are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.
Job 10:21
before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 11:8
Heights of the heavens! What can you do? It is deeper than hell, what can you know?
Job 14:10-14
But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?
Job 16:22
For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.
Job 37:11
Also He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters the lightning cloud,
Psalm 39:13
Look away from me, and I will smile before I go away and be no more.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.