Tree of Life Version
Job 20:7
7he perishes 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?
- 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
5that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment? 6Though his pride reaches to the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ 8Like a dream, he flies away and they cannot find him; like a vision of the night, he is chased away. 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 14:10Therefore, I am about to bring evil on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off to Jeroboam even one man, bond and free, in Israel. I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns the dung until it is all gone.
- 2 Kings 9:37and the carcass of Jezebel will be as dung upon the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so that they will not say, “This was Jezebel.”’”
- Psalms 83:10Do to them as You did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River,
- Jeremiah 8:2They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, and after which they have walked and sought, and which they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or buried, but will be like dung on the face of the ground.
- Job 14:10But man dies and is powerless. Man expires—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
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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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