Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 excellency 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, and 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 shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 8:18If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.'
Job 14:14If a man die, may he live again? All the days of my service would I wait, till my relief should come —
Psalms 41:5(41-6) Mine enemies speak evil of me: 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.
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 →