New International Version
Job 20:7
7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
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?
- 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?’
- New Living Translation (NLT)yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’
Context of Job 20:7
5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. 6Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ 8Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night. 9The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
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כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 20:7
- 1 Kings 14:10“ ‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free. I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.
- 2 Kings 9:37Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”
- Psalms 83:10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
- Jeremiah 8:2They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.
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
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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
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