Job 20:9
Those who saw those people previously will never see them again; even their families [MTY] will not see them any more.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Job 7:8God, you [SYN] see me now, but some day you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone because I will be dead.
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 27:3as long as God’s Spirit enables me to breathe,
Psalms 37:36when I looked later, they were gone! I searched for them, but Yahweh had caused them to disappear.
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 →