John Trapp on Job 7:9

Verſe 9. As the cloud is conſumed and vaniſheth away] A cloud is nothing elſe but a vapour thickened in the middle Region of the aire by the cold encompaſſing and driving it together, pſalm 18.19. veſſels they are as thin as the liquor that is in them; but ſome are waterleſſe: the former are ſoon emptied and diſſolved; the later as ſoon ſcattered by the wind, and vaniſh away. See the Note on verſe 7.

So he that goeth down to the grave ſhall come up no more,] ſc. to live and converſe here with men, as ver. 10. Or he ſhall come up no more, ſc. without a miracle (as Lazarus and ſome others long ſince dead roſe againe) he cannot return to me, ſaid David of his deceaſed child, 2 Sam. 12.23. God could ſend ſome from the dead to warn the living; but that is not now to be expected, as Abraham told the rich man, Luk. 16. Thoſe ſpirits of dead men that ſo oft appeared in times of Popery (requiring their friends to ſing Maſſes and Dirges for them; and that drew this verſe from Theodorus Gaza, ſunt aliquid manes, lethum non omnia finit) were either deluſions, or elſe divels in the ſhape of men. That Job doubted of the Reſurrection, or denied it, (as Rabbi Solomon, and ſome other, both Hebrew and Greek writers conclude from this text) is a manifeſt injury done to this good man, and a force offered to the text, as appeareth by that which next followeth.