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As a cloud vanishes and is no more,
    so the one who descends to the netherworld[a] will never come up again.

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  1. Job 7:9 Netherworld: this is the first explicit allusion to the great subterranean pit where the dead are gathered together. Job speaks of it according to the opinion in his day. It is no longer the sojourn of repose (Job 3:13-19), but a place from which one “will never again return,” or where one is separated from his home, his family, and even his God.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead) shall come up no more.

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

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As the cloud disappears and vanishes away,
So (A)he who goes down to the grave does not come up.

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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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