Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.
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
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
8 The eyes of the one who sees me won't see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won't be around! 9 As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return. 10 He doesn't return again to his house, and his place won't recognize him anymore."
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that he has died, what's the point of fasting? Can I bring him back again? I'll be going to be with him, but he won't be returning to me."
Job 30:15
My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."
2 Samuel 14:14
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
Job 10:21
before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
Job 11:8
These things are higher than the heavens, so what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol, so what can you know?
Job 14:10-14
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
Job 16:22
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
Job 37:11
He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds.
Psalm 39:13
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave.