Job 20:7

Job 20:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
• New International Version (NIV)he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
• English Standard Version (ESV)he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
• New King James Version (NKJV)Yet he will perish forever like his own refuse; Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

Context of Job 20:7

5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night. 9The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

Job 20:7 word by word

כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

• dungגֵּלgêlel · dungH1561
• perishאָבַד'âbad · to perishH6
• seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Whereאַי'ay · where?H335

Cross-references for Job 20:7

• 1 Kings 14:10therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
• 2 Kings 9:37and the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the open field in the plot of Jizreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
• Psalms 83:10Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
• Jeremiah 8:2and they shall spread them out to the sun and to the moon and to all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the ground.
• Job 14:10But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?

Commentaries on Job 20:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7He shall perish for ever - He is dust, and shall return to the dust from which he was taken. Zophar here hints his disbelief in that doctrine, the resurrection of the body, which Job had so solemnly asserted in the preceding chapter. Or he might have been like some in the present day, who believe that the wicked shall be annihilated, and the bodies of the righteous only be raised from the dead; but I know of no scripture by which such a doctrine is…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7he will perish forever, like his own dung: Compare 1 Kings 14:9–11; 2 Kings 9:36–37; Psalm 83:10; Jeremiah 8:1–2.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. dung--in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner (Job 20:6); this strong term expresses disgust and the lowest degradation (Psa 83:10; 1Ki 14:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 20:7

• Ambition
• Hypocrisy
• Wicked (People)
• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Rain
• Short
• Dung; Dung Gate
• Zophar

Commentaries on Job 20

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings