Job 20:7

they will disappear forever, like their own dung, and those who knew them will ask, ‘◄Where did they go/What happened to them►?’

Translation for Translators

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

6Even though their reputation/pride reaches up to the sky and their fame goes up as high as the clouds,

8They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is, and they will exist no more. They will vanish, like visions that people see during the night.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:10‘So, I am going to cause terrible things to happen to your family. I will cause all your male descendants to die, young ones and old ones. I will completely get rid of your family [MTY]. I will get rid of your family [MTY] just like a man completely burns dung to cook his food.

Job 4:20People are sometimes well in the morning, but in the evening they are dead. They are gone forever and do not even know it (OR, and no one pays any attention to it).

Job 8:18But if those plants are pulled out, it is as though the place where they were planted says ‘They were never here!’ And that is what happens to wicked people who do not heed what God says.

Job 14:14When we humans die, we will certainly not live again [RHQ]. If I knew that we would live again, I would wait patiently, and I would wait for you to release me from my sufferings.

Psalms 41:5My enemies say cruel things about me; they say, “How soon will he die, and then everyone will forget about him [MTY]? (OR, he will not have any descendants to continue his name).”

Psalms 112:10Wicked people see those things and are angry; they gnash their teeth angrily, but they will disappear and die. The wicked things that they want to do will never happen.

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 →

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