Job 20:8
He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
7He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?
9The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
Job 7:21You do not take away my transgression, || And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, || Because now, I lie down in dust, || And You have sought me—and I am not!”
Job 27:21An east wind takes him up, and he goes, || And it frightens him from his place,
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, || In awaking, You despise their image.
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a windstorm, || So the wicked is not, || And the righteous is a perpetual 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 →