Job 7:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ כֵּ֥ן יוֹרֵ֥ד שְׁ֝א֗וֹל לֹ֣א יַעֲלֽ͏ֶה

Transliteration

Kālâ 'ānān and wayyêlaḵ so yôrêḏ shĕ'ôl not ya'ăleh

Grammar Details

*kālâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it vanishes/is finished
*'ānān*: noun, masculine singular - cloud
*wa*: conjunction - and
*yêlaḵ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it goes/departs
*kên*: adverb - so/thus
*yôrêḏ*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - one descending
*shĕ'ôl*: noun, feminine singular - Sheol/grave/pit
*lō'*: negative particle - not
*ya'ăleh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he ascends/comes up

Word Meanings

*kālâ*: vanishes/is finished/is consumed/disappears
*'ānān*: cloud/clouds
*yêlaḵ*: goes/departs/disappears
*yôrêḏ*: one descending/one going down to
*shĕ'ôl*: Sheol/grave/underworld/pit
*ya'ăleh*: ascends/comes up/returns

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 spilt 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.

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