As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
- Job 7:9
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Job 12:14
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 16:22
the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt said, the only remedy for the inevitability of history is forgiveness; otherwise, we remain trapped in the "predicament of irreversibility.