Verse 9

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
  • Job 10:21 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep. 13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
  • Job 30:15 : 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away like a cloud.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 Also by watering he burdens the thick cloud, he scatters his bright cloud.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
  • Job 11:8 : 8 It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than the grave; what can you know?
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.