Job 20:9
The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.
Literal Standard Version
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
8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
10His sons oppress the poor, || And his hands give back his wealth.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
Job 8:18If [one] destroys him from his place, || Then it has feigned concerning him, || I have not seen you!
Job 27:3For all the while my breath [is] in me, || And the wind of God in my nostrils.
Psalms 37:36And he passes away, and behold, he is not, || And I seek him, and he is not 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 →