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Job 7

Job 7:9

Job Continues: Life Seems Futile · Job 7:1–21
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Translations

Modern
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Traditional
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Literal
As a cloud is consumed and goes away, so the one going down to Sheol does not ascend.
Latin
Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.

Original

Hebrew
English
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

Notes

Job 7:9

goes down to Sheol: This is the first plain mention of Sheol in Job.

It is described as:

  1. A place of rest from the pressures and distinctions of earth (3:13–19).

  2. "Darkness" (10:21–22; 17:13).

  3. Deep in the earth (11:8).

  4. Covered in dust (17:16).

  5. The fate of all living beings from which no one can return (30:23; 10:21; see Genesis 37:25; 2 Samuel 12:12).

Job 7:6–21

Job cried out to God, saying life was too short (7:6–10). This complaint contrasts with his earlier wish for God to end his life (6:9).

Job 6:1–7:21

Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.

Events

Glossary

Book of Job Hell Life Resurrection

Topics

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