Job 20:8
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
Job 7:21Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.
Job 27:21A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.
Psalms 73:20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
Proverbs 10:25As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as 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 →