Job 7:9

American Standard Version (1901)

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
  • Job 10:21 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Job 11:8 : 8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know?
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 7:6-8
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

    7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

    8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

  • Job 14:10-14
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    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11[ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

    12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 7and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

  • 17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.

  • 5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • 19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

  • 19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • 32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

  • 20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • 16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • 21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • 48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

  • 10Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

  • 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

  • Eccl 6:4-6
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    4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

    5moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

    6yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

  • 17The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

  • 5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

  • 22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • 14For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

  • 36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • 15All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • 9That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • 5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

  • 13For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

  • 6Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • 16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

  • 2Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.