Job 7:9

“The cloud comes to an end and goes away; so one who goes down to Sheol does not come up.”

Job 7:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Job 7:9, word by word

The cloudעָנָןanan

cloud

A mass of vapor in the sky that gives shade, brings rain or covers the light.

Where else “anan” appears
comes to an endכָּלָהkala

be spent

To be used up little by little until nothing is left.

Where else “kala” appears
and goes awayיֵּלַךְyelach

go

To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.

Where else “yelach” appears
one who goes downיוֹרֵדyored

go down

To go from a higher place to a lower one, like from the mountain to the valley.

Where else “yored” appears
to Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol

Sheol

Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.

Where else “sheol” appears
come upיַעֲלֶהyaale

go up

To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.

Where else “yaale” appears

The context

8The eye of the one who sees me will not catch sight of me; your eyes will be on me, and I will be no more.

9 · This verse (above)

10He will not return again to his house, nor will his place recognize him anymore.

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