Job 20:7
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
Majority Standard Bible
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 arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Psalms 41:5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
Psalms 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
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 →