Bible Trivia Question

Job describes his life as something that will never return, comparing it to what?


A tree that falls
A river that dries up
A cloud that vanishes
A bird that flies away

A cloud that vanishes

Job 7:9 - Job compares his life to a cloud that vanishes, symbolizing the inevitability of death and the hopelessness of any return from it.

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