Job 20:8
Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
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In Context
9The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger was quieted.
Job 7:21Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.
Job 27:21A burning wind will pick him up and carry him away, and, like a whirlwind, it will rush him from his place.
Psalms 73:20Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.
Proverbs 10:25Like a passing tempest, so the impious one will be no more. But the just one is like 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 →