Job 20:7
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
Young's Literal Translation
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 excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike —
8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10'Therefore, lo, I am bringing in evil unto the house of Jeroboam, and have cut off to Jeroboam those sitting on the wall — shut up and left — in Israel, and have put away the posterity of the house of Jeroboam, as one putteth away the dung till its consumption;
Job 4:20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
Job 8:18If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
Job 14:14If a man dieth — doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.
Psalms 41:5Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth — his name hath perished!
Psalms 112:10The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth 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 →