When a (A)cloud vanishes, it is gone;
In the same way (B)one who goes down to [a](C)Sheol does not come up.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:9 I.e., the netherworld

As a cloud vanishes(A) and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave(B) does not return.(C)

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Therefore they will be like the (A)morning cloud
And like dew which [a]soon disappears,
Like (B)chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor,
And like (C)smoke from a chimney.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 13:3 Lit goes away early

Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears,(A)
    like chaff(B) swirling from a threshing floor,(C)
    like smoke(D) escaping through a window.

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