Job 20:8

Like a dream will he fly away, and men will find him no more; yea, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

In Context

7Yet when he but turneth round will he vanish for ever; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?

9If an eye have surveyed him, it will not do so again, and it will not behold him any more in his place.

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Cross References

Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king was appeased.

Job 7:21And why wilt thou not forgive my transgression, and let my iniquity pass away? for soon must I lie down in the dust; and thou wilt seek for me, but I shall be no more.

Job 27:21The east wind will lift him up, and he must be gone; and it hurleth him like a storm out of his place.

Psalms 73:20As a dream after awaking, O Lord, reject thou in wrath their image.

Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth by, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

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 →

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