Job 20:8
He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
Job 7:21And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.
Job 27:21The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
Psalms 73:20As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
Proverbs 10:25As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous is 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 →