Verse 9

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

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.