Job 20:7
they will vanish forever like their own excrement. People who knew them will ask, ‘Where have they gone?’
Free Bible 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
6Even though they are so tall they reach the heavens, even though their heads reach the clouds,
8They will vanish like a dream, never to be found, fleeing like a vision of the night.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10Now pay attention, because as a result of this I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will totally exterminate every one of your descendants in Israel, whether slave or free. I will burn the house of Jeroboam like a man burning refuse until it's all gone.
Job 4:20Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.
Job 8:18But when it's cut down, the place where it was disowns it, saying, ‘I never even saw you.’
Job 14:14Will the dead live again? Then I would have hope through all my time of trouble until my release comes.
Psalms 41:5Those who hate me only say evil things about me. “When is he going to die, and people forget all about him?” they ask.
Psalms 112:10The wicked observe all this and are mad; they gnash their teeth in anger. They waste away, and all that they hoped for comes to nothing.
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 →