Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.
Job 7:21And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked man is no more, but the righteous man is an everlasting foundation.
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →