Job 20:9

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

8Like 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.

10His children will suffer oppression from the indigent, and his hands will have to restore his [ill-gotten] wealth.

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Cross References

Job 7:8The eye of him that seeth me now will not behold me again: [thou fixest] thy eyes upon me, and I am no more.

Job 8:18But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.

Job 27:3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

Psalms 37:36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was no more: and I sought him, but he could not be found.

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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