Job 7:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back at this point? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”
  • Job 10:21 : 21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he? 11 As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep. 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Job 11:8 : 8 It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Eccl 12:7
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    7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.

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    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

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    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward– and even the memory of them disappears.

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    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

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    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Ps 146:4
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    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

  • Ps 6:5
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    5For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

  • Eccl 3:20
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    20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.

  • Job 17:16
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    16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

  • Job 10:21
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

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    17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.

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    5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

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    15all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

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    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

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    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

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  • Ezek 7:13
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    13The customer will no longer pay the seller while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, will fail to preserve his life.

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    6The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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    2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.