Job 7:9 — Compare Translations

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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
English ASV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
English Amplified
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.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
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.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
English EASY 2024
Clouds disappear and you never see them again. That is like people who die and go into their graves. They do not come back again.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
Just as clouds that come and go, people are put in the grave, never to rise again.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Like a cloud that fades and is gone, we humans die and never return; we are forgotten by all who knew us.
English God's Word - GW 1995
As a cloud fades away and disappears, so a person goes into the grave and doesn't come back again.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
As a cloud fades away and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.
English KJV 1611
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
English LSB
A cloud vanishes, and it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
"When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
As a cloud dissolves and vanishes, so he who goes down to the nether world shall come up no more.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
When a cloud disappears, it's gone forever. And anyone who goes down to the grave never returns.
English NIV
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return.
English NKJ 1982
As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, So he who goes down to the grave does not come up.
English NLT
Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so those who go down to Sheol do not come up;
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
As a cloud disperses and vanishes, so those who die shall go away forever—
English Tyndale 1537
For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, even so he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,