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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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