Job 20:7
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
In Context
6Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
Job 8:18If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.
Job 14:14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
Psalms 41:5\41:4\I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.
Psalms 112:10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
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 →