Job 20:8
He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.
Job 7:21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
Job 27:21The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.
Psalms 73:20As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.
Proverbs 10:25When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
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 →