Job 20:7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10Therefore behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut of from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.
Job 4:20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
Job 8:18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.
Job 14:14Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.
Psalms 41:5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me : heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
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 →