Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not 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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
8 The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me -- and I am not. 9 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. 10 He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
and now, he hath died, why is this -- I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'
Job 30:15
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
2 Samuel 14:14
for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 10:21
Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
Job 11:8
Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?
Job 14:10-14
And a man dieth, and becometh weak, And man expireth, and where is he?
Job 16:22
When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.
Job 37:11
Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.
Psalm 39:13
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.