Job 20:9
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
Majority Standard Bible
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 will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
10His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
Job 27:3as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be 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 →