Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
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 →