Job 20:9
The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
In Context
8Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
10His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
Cross References
Job 7:8Neither will the sight of man gaze upon me; your eyes are upon me, and I will not endure.
Job 8:18If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: “I do not know you.”
Job 27:3as long as my breath remains in me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
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 →