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 20:8 in other translations
| BSB | He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. |
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| WEB | He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. |
| ASV | He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
| YLT | As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, |
| DARBY | He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night. |
| BBE | He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night. |
| Webster | He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
What does Job 20:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
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 20:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 20:8
- Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Isaiah 29:7-8
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
- Psalms 18:10
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
- Job 27:21-23
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
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Context
- 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 20:9
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job 20:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Como sueño volará, y no será hallado: y disiparáse como visión nocturna. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il s’envole comme un songe, et on ne le trouve pas; il s’enfuit comme une vision de la nuit. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie ein Traum verfliegt er, und man findet ihn nicht, und er wird hinweggescheucht wie ein Nachtgesicht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Velut somnium avolans non invenietur: transiet sicut visio nocturna. |