KJV ORIGINAL
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Just as a cloud disappears and is gone forever, so a person who dies and goes to the grave will never come back again.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is saying that death appears to be final and permanent, like a cloud that vanishes completely from the sky.
📚 Historical Context
Job spoke these words during his intense suffering, having lost his children, wealth, and health. In the Old Testament era, people had limited understanding of resurrection and afterlife compared to what would later be revealed in the New Testament. Job was expressing his despair about the apparent finality of death from his human perspective during this dark period.
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