Job 20:7
He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?
Literal Standard Version
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 excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud—
8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10therefore, behold, I am bringing calamity to the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall—shut up and left—in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one puts away the dung until its consumption;
Job 4:20From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
Job 8:18If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!
Job 14:14If a man dies—does he revive? All [the] days of my warfare I wait, until my change comes.
Psalms 41:5My enemies say evil of me: When he dies—his name has perished!
Psalms 112:10The wicked sees, and has been angry, || He gnashes his teeth, and has melted, || The desire of the wicked perishes!
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 →