InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Job C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42
Job 7 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21
OET (OET-RV) Clouds just pop out of existence again and vanish.
⇔ Similarly, the person who goes down to Sheol doesn’t come back up again.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ
(Some words not found in UHB: vanishes cloud and,it_has_gone yes/correct/thus/so goes_down shəʼōl not it_will_ascend )
Job could be: (1) saying that once a cloud disappears, it goes away forever. That same cloud will never again form in the sky. Alternate translation: [Once a cloud disappears, it goes away forever]; (2) using the similar expressions disappears and goes away together for emphasis. Alternate translation: [A cloud disappears entirely]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives
לֹ֣א יַעֲלֶֽה
not (Some words not found in UHB: vanishes cloud and,it_has_gone yes/correct/thus/so goes_down shəʼōl not it_will_ascend )
If it would be clearer in your language, you could use a positive expression to translate this double negative that consists of the negative particle not and the verb ascend, which is contrary to the reality of life, according to Job here. Alternate translation: [remains there]
OET (OET-RV) Clouds just pop out of existence again and vanish.
⇔ Similarly, the person who goes down to Sheol doesn’t come back up again.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.