As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
(2 Samuel 12:23). David as to his child, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
The grave - the Sheol, or the place of departed spirits-not disproving Job's belief in the resurrection. It merely means, 'He shall come up no more' in the present order of things. Though doubtless Job, through the severity of his affliction, speaks under the impulses of sense at times, more than of faith, viewing things in their earthly aspect rather than in their unseen and heavenly point of view. But his faith continually at intervals breaks forth in glimpses of unseen realities, in spite of carnal sense (Job 19:25). With "the cloud is consumed" cf. Psalms 37:20 - "They shall consume: into smoke shall they consume away."