Job 7:9
As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sicut consumitur nubes, et pertransit, sic qui descenderit ad inferos, non ascendet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὥσπερ νέφος ἀποκαθαρθὲν ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ. ἐὰν γὰρ ἄνθρωπος καταβῇ εἰς ᾅδην, οὐκ ἔτι μὴ ἀναβῇ,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כָּלָ֣ה עָ֭נָן וַיֵּלַ֑ךְ כֵּ֥ן יוֹרֵ֥ד שְׁ֝א֗וֹל לֹ֣א יַעֲלֶֽה
Haydock's commentary
Hell, or the grave. (Menochius)
He was convinced of the resurrection. But he meant that, according to the natural course, we can have no means of returning to this world after we are dead.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyril of Jerusalem On the Words, And in One Holy Catholic Church, and in the Resurrection of the Flesh, and the Life Everlasting
14. These questions, therefore, are for them, the unbelievers: but the words of the Prophets are for us who believe. But since some who have also used the Prophets believe not what is written, and allege against us that passage, The ungodly shall not rise up in judgment , and, For if man go down to the grave he shall come up no more , and, The dead shall not praise Thee, O Lord , for of what is well written, they have made ill use, it will be well in a cursory manner, and as far as is now possible, to meet them. For if it is said, that the ungodly shall not rise up in judgment , this shews that they shall rise, not in judgment, but in condemnation; for God needs not long scrutiny, but close on the resurrection of the ungodly follows also their punishment. …