"As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more."
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
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 down to the grave shall come up no more.
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.