Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
American Standard Version
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
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.
Job 4:20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 8:18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.
Job 14:14If a man die, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Psalms 41:5Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish. Psalm 113
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 →