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As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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The Finality of Death
Commentators agree that the central image of a vanishing cloud powerfully illustrates the finality of death from an earthly perspective. Just as a cloud dissipates and is gone forever, a person who goes to the grave (Sheol) does not return to their former life on earth. This simile emphasizes the complete and irrevocable nature of death.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away—This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until t…
19th Century
Anglican
As the cloud is consumed. —It is a fine simile that man is as evanescent as a cloud; and very apt is the figure, because, whether it vanis…
Baptist
Am I such an important thing, such a dangerous thing, that I ought to be watched like this, and perpetually hampered, and tethered, and kept within…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away Which being dispersed by the wind, or broke up by the sun, is never se…
Plain truths concerning the shortness and vanity of human life, and the certainty of death, do us good when we think and speak of them, applying th…
13th Century
Catholic
The blessed Job has previously demonstrated that the comfort Eliphaz offered, which promised happiness in this earthly life, was unsuitable. He fir…
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