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Job 7:9 Cross-References
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“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”
Job 7:9 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 7:9
Job employs natural imagery to illustrate death's finality: the cloud that dissipates never reconstitutes. The verb 'consumed' (kalah, כָּלָה) means to complete, finish, or bring to end. The cloud 'vanisheth away' (halak, הָלַךְ) using the common verb for going or walking—it departs permanently. Job applies this to human mortality: 'he that goeth down to the grave' (Sheol, שְׁאוֹל) 'shall come up no more' (lo ya'aleh, לֹא יַעֲלֶה).This verse reflects Old Testament revelation's limited understanding of resurrection. Job speaks truth about natural human destiny apart from divine intervention—dea...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 7:9
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“and are as water split on the ground”
“Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.”
“to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;”
“that I may recover strength”
“and is laid low. Yes”
“I shall go the way from whence I shall not return.”
“why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him”
“It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?”
“he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.”
“I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.,I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world., אָמַרְתִּי לֹא־אֶרְאֶה יָהּ יָהּ בְּאֶרֶץ הַחַיִּים לֹא־אַבִּיט אָדָם עוֹד עִם־יוֹשְׁבֵי חָדֶל׃ ,I said: I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.,ἐγὼ εἶπα ἐν τῷ ὕψει τῶν ἡμερῶν μου ἐν πύλαις ᾅδου καταλείψω τὰ ἔτη τὰ ἐπίλοιπα,I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man.,,,,”