Job 20:7
in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
6If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
8Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10For this reason, behold, I will lead evils over the house of Jeroboam, and I will strike down from Jeroboam that which urinates against a wall, and that which is lame, and that which is last in Israel. And I will cleanse that which remains of the house of Jeroboam, just as dung is usually cleaned away, until there is purity.
Job 4:20From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
Job 8:18If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”
Job 14:14Do you suppose that a dead man will live again? On each of the days in which I now battle, I wait until my transformation occurs.
Psalms 41:5These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
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 →