“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”
Job asserts that as a cloud fades and vanishes, so the one who goes down to Sheol does not come up, articulating the conviction that death is final and irreversible. The image of the cloud's disappearance represents the dissolution of the visible into the invisible. The assertion of death's finality becomes a kind of comfort: soon this suffering will be over.
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