Job 20:7
Yet shall he perish for ever, and be mingled with dust; They who saw him shall say, Where is he?
Noyes 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 greatness mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds,
Cross References
Job 4:20Between morning and evening are they destroyed; They perish for ever, and none regardeth it.
Job 8:18When he shall be destroyed from his place, It shall deny him, saying, 'I never saw thee.'
Job 14:14If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my war-service would I wait, Till my change should come.
Psalms 41:5My enemies speak evil of me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see, and be grieved; He shall gnash his teeth, and melt away; The desire of the wicked shall 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 →