Job Continues: Life Seems Futile

Job 7:9

In 11 translations

BSB: As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
KJV: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
WEB: As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.Sheol is the place of the dead.
ASV: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
LSV: A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, || So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.
YLT: Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
DBY: The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
DRC: As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.
GNV: As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.
JPS: As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
LXXE: I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

WLC: כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ כֵּ֥ן יוֹרֵ֥ד שְׁ֝א֗וֹל לֹ֣א יַעֲלֶֽה׃
LXX-Br: Ὥσπερ νέφος ἀποκαθαρθὲν ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ· ἐὰν γὰρ ἄνθρωπος καταβῇ εἰς ᾅδην, οὐκ ἔτι μὴ ἀναβῇ,

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2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
2 Samuel 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Job 14:10–14But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will…
Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

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