Job 7:9
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
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ASV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
KJV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away - This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until they wholly vanish. For an illustration of a similar phrase, see the notes at Isa 44:22. To the grave - - שׁאול she'ôl. Septuagint, εἰς ᾅδην eis hadēn, to Hades. The word may mean grave, or the place of departed spirits; see Isa 5:14, note; Isa 14:9, note; compare the notes at Job 10:21-22. Either signification will apply here. Shall come up no more - Shall no more live on the earth.
(2Sa 12:23). the grave--the Sheol, or place of departed spirits, not disproving Job's belief in the resurrection. It merely means, "He shall come up no more" in the present order of things.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one…
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Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live…
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Job 10:21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
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But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.