Verse 9

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.
  • Job 10:21 : 21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he? 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep. 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my dignity like the wind, and my salvation has vanished like a cloud.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."
  • Job 11:8 : 8 They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.