Job 20:9
The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
Darby Translation
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
8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
10His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job 8:18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!
Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
Psalms 37:36but he passed away, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.
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 →