JOB 7:9 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) Clouds just pop out of existence again and vanish.
⇔ Similarly, the person who goes down to She’ol doesn’t come back up again.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ὥσπερ νέφος ἀποκαθαρθὲν ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ· ἐὰν γὰρ ἄνθρωπος καταβῇ εἰς ᾅδην, οὐκ ἔτι μὴ ἀναβῇ,
(Hōsper nefos apokatharthen apʼ ouranou; ean gar anthrōpos katabaʸ eis hadaʸn, ouk eti maʸ anabaʸ, )

BrTr I am as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again:

ULT A cloud disappears and goes away;
⇔ so the one descending to Sheol does not ascend.

UST Just as a cloud never appears in the sky again once it fades,
⇔ so when people die and go to the place where dead people are, they never return to earth.

BSB As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
⇔ so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

OEB Like the cloud that is spent and that passeth away,
⇔ He that goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

WEBBE As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away,
⇔ so he who goes down to Sheol[fn] will come up no more.

7:9 Sheol is the place of the dead.

WMBB (Same as above including footnotes)

NET As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears,
⇔ so the one who goes down to the grave
⇔ does not come up again.

LSV A cloud has been consumed, and it goes,
So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.

FBV When a cloud disappears, it's gone, just as anyone who goes down to Sheol[fn] does not come back up.

7:9 “Sheol”: the place of the dead.

T4T Like [SIM] clouds ◄disperse/break up► and then disappear,
⇔ people die and descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return;

LEB • so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up.

BBE A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

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

ASV As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away,
⇔ So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

DRA As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.

YLT Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

Drby The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

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

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

KJB-1769 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: so he that goeth/goes down to the grave shall come up no more. )

KJB-1611 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The cloude is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp,
(The cloud is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth/goes down to the grave shall come no more up,)

Gnva As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.
(As the cloud vanisheth and goeth/goes away, so he that goeth/goes down to the grave, shall come up no more. )

Cvdl as a cloude is cosumed and vanyshed awaye, euen so he that goeth downe to hell, commeth nomore vp,
(as a cloud is cosumed and vanyshed away, even so he that goeth/goes down to hell, cometh/comes no more up,)

Wycl As a cloude is wastid, and passith, so he that goith doun to helle, schal not stie;
(As a cloud is wastid, and passith, so he that goeth/goes down to helle, shall not stie;)

Luth Eine Wolke vergehet und fähret dahin; also, wer in die Hölle hinunterfährt, kommt nicht wieder herauf
(Eine Wolke vergehet and fähret dahin; also, who in the hell hinunterfährt, comes not again herauf)

ClVg Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.[fn]
(Sicut consumitur nubes, and pertransit, so who descenderit to inferos, not/no ascendet. )

7.9 Sicut consumitur nubes. Ibid. Nubes ad alta levatur, etc., usque ad vade in domum tuam.

7.9 Sicut consumitur nubes. Ibid. Nubes to alta levatur, etc., until to vade in home tuam.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַ⁠יֵּלַ֑ךְ

vanishes cloud and,vanishes

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 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”

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