Job 7:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

New Living Translation
Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.

English Standard Version
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

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

New American Standard Bible
“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone; In the same way one who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

NASB 1995
"When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

NASB 1977
“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

Amplified Bible
“As a cloud vanishes and is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.

Christian Standard Bible
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

Contemporary English Version
I will disappear in the grave or vanish from sight like a passing cloud.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn't come back again.

International Standard Version
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn't return.

NET Bible
As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

New King James Version
As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.

King James 2000 Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

New Heart English Bible
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

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

American King James Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

American Standard Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

A Faithful Version
As the cloud fades and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

Darby Bible Translation
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

English Revised Version
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Webster's Bible Translation
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The cloude is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp,

Coverdale Bible of 1535
as a cloude is cosumed and vanyshed awaye, euen so he that goeth downe to hell, commeth nomore vp,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, "" So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.

Young's Literal Translation
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

Smith's Literal Translation
The cloud will end and will go away: thus he shall go down to hades and shall not come up.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
As a cloud disappears and departs, in this way he who has descended to Sheol does not go up

Lamsa Bible
As the cloud fades away and disappears, so he who descends to Sheol shall not ascend any more.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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:
















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