Job 20:8
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'
9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
Cross References
Esther 7:10And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
Job 7:21Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me — and I am not!
Job 27:21Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,
Psalms 73:20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.
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 →