As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
ASV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
YLT
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.
DBT
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.