Job 20:8
Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?
9The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
Cross References
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai,—and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.
Job 7:21And why wilt thou not remove my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For, now, in the dust, should I lie down, and thou shouldst seek me diligently, and I should not be.
Job 27:21An east wind shall lift him up, and he shall depart, and it shall sweep him away out of his place;
Psalms 73:20As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.
Proverbs 10:25Like the passing away of a tempest, so the lawless one is not, but, the righteous, [hath] an age-abiding foundation.
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 →