Job Chapter 7 verse 9 Holy Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
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The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - As the aloud is consumed and vanisheth away. In mountainous countries one sees clouds clinging to a mountain-side, which do not float away, but gradually shrink, and at last wholly disappear. They are "consumed" in the strictest sense of the word - the hot rays of the sun drink them up. So he that goeth down to the grave; rather, to Sheol; i.e. to the lower world, the abode of the departed. What exactly was Job's idea of this world it is impossible to say, or whether it involved the continued separate identity of individual souls and their continued consciousness. In Isaiah's conception both seem certainly to have been involved (Isaiah 14:9-18), and perhaps in Jacob's (Genesis 37:35); but Job s creed on the subject can only be conjectured. It is certain, however, that both the Egyptians and the early Babylonians held the continuance after death of individual souls, their separate existence, and their consciousness (see the author's 'History of Ancient Egypt,' vol. 1. pp. 317-319; and 'Religions of the Ancient World,' pp. 62-65). Shall come up no more. The Egyptian belief was that the soul would ultimately return to the body from which death separated it, and rein-habit it. But this belief was certainly not general among the nations of antiquity.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) As the cloud is consumed.--It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanishes on the surface of the sky or is distributed in rain, nothing more completely passes away than the summer cloud. It is an appearance only, which comes to nought.
