Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:7 in other translations
| BSB | he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’ |
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| WEB | yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ |
| ASV | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| YLT | As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: ‘Where is he?' |
| DARBY | Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| BBE | Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he? |
| Webster | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
What does Job 20:7 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 20:1-9
Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in remorse, anguish, and ruin. Dissembled piety is double iniquity, and the ruin that attends it will be accordingly.
Job 20:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 20:7
- 1 Kings 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
- Job 4:20
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- 2 Kings 9:37
And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
- Psalms 83:10
Which perished at En–dor: they became as dung for the earth.
- Job 8:18
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
- Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
- Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
- Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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Context
- Job 20:6
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
- Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Job 20:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Con su estiércol perecerá para siempre: los que le hubieren visto, dirán: ¿Qué es de él? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il périra pour toujours comme ses ordures; ceux qui l’ont vu diront: Où est-il? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | gleich seinem Kote vergeht er auf ewig; die ihn gesehen haben, sagen: Wo ist er? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, et qui eum viderant, dicent: Ubi est? |