“He will not return to his house again, Nor will his place know about him anymore.
Parallel translations
- WEB He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- KJV He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- BSB He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
- NKJV He shall never return to his house, Nor shall his place know him anymore.
- NLT They are gone forever from their home— never to be seen again.
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Quick answer
Job says the dead never come back to their homes, and even their familiar places forget them. Death severs all earthly ties.
Overview
Echoing the previous verse, Job dwells on how thoroughly death removes a person from this life and its surroundings. The pathos heightens his complaint that his days are slipping away. Such honest lament is permitted within faith, and points beyond itself to the longing for a life that death cannot end.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Job 8:18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
- Job 20:9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
- Ps 103:16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.
- Job 27:23Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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