Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 7:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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Role in This Section
Job 7:9 advances the thought unit with the words “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come….” Job states “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away” as one poetic claim in Job Appeals to God from Fleeting Life and Night Terror.
Read It With
- Job 7:7–7:16
Read Job 7:9 with 7:7–7:16. Read alone, “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks God to remember his breath-like life, describes descent to the grave as irreversible within his horizon, and says dreams and bodily misery make death seem preferable.
Why It Needs Context
Job 7:9 depends on 7:7–7:16; isolating “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Appeals to God from Fleeting Life and Night Terror.”
Read Job 7:7–16 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 7:7–7:16 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Appeals to God from Fleeting Life and Night Terror.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 7. 7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Verse 8. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Verse 9. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Verse 10. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Verse 11. 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Verse 12. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Verse 13. 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Verse 14. 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Verse 15. 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Verse 16. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 7:7–7:16 — Job Appeals to God from Fleeting Life and Night TerrorSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 7:7–7:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 7:7–7:16
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