Job 8:18
If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
In Context
17His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.
19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.
Cross References
Job 7:10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Psalms 37:10And yet a little while, and the wicked is no more; yea, thou shalt look well at his place, and he is not.
Psalms 73:18Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →