Job 20:8
They will vanish like a dream, never to be found, fleeing like a vision of the night.
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9Those who once saw them will not see them anymore; their families will never set eyes on them again.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they impaled Haman on the pole that he had set up for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king died down.
Job 7:21If so why don't you pardon my sins, and take away my guilt? Right now I'm going to lie down in the dust, and though you will look for me, I will be gone.”
Job 27:21The east wind picks them up and they're gone, carried away from where they were.
Psalms 73:20Like waking up from a dream, Lord—when you get up you will forget all about them!
Proverbs 10:25When the storm hits, the wicked are no more, but the good are safe and secure forever.
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 →