Job 20:9
Those who once saw them will not see them anymore; their families will never set eyes on them again.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
In Context
8They will vanish like a dream, never to be found, fleeing like a vision of the night.
10Their children will have to pay back the poor; they will have to return their wealth.
Cross References
Job 7:8Those watching me won't see me anymore; your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
Job 8:18But when it's cut down, the place where it was disowns it, saying, ‘I never even saw you.’
Job 27:3for as long as I have life, while the breath of God remains in my nostrils—
Psalms 37:36But when I passed that way the next time, they were gone. I searched for them but couldn't find them.
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 →