Job 20:7
yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
World English Bible Updated
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 height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 8:18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
Job 14:14If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
Psalms 41:5My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”
Psalms 112:10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will 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 →