Job 20:9
The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
Young's Literal Translation
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
8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
10His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.
Cross References
Job 7:8The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes [are] upon me — and I am not.
Job 8:18If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
Job 27:3For all the while my breath [is] in me, And the spirit of God in my nostrils.
Psalms 37:36And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
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 →