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Job 20:8

Like a dream, he will fly away, never to be found. He will be chased away like a bad dream.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Dream;   Hypocrisy;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   The Topic Concordance - Oppression;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ambition;   Dreams;   Wicked, the, Are Compared to;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Apparition;   Dream (2);   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dream;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He will fly away like a dream and never be found;he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Hebrew Names Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
King James Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
English Standard Version
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
New Century Version
They will fly away like a dream and not be found again; they will be chased away like a vision in the night.
New English Translation
Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
Amplified Bible
"He flies away like a dream and cannot be found; Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.
New American Standard Bible
"He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Like a vision of the night he is chased away.
World English Bible
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
Legacy Standard Bible
He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.
Berean Standard Bible
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Contemporary English Version
They will be forgotten like a dream
Complete Jewish Bible
Like a dream he flies off and is not found again; like a vision in the night he is chased away.
Darby Translation
He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
George Lamsa Translation
He shall fly away like a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
Good News Translation
They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.
Lexham English Bible
He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Literal Translation
He flies off like a dream, and is not found; and is driven away like a night vision.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night.
American Standard Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Bible in Basic English
He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
King James Version (1611)
He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.
English Revised Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As a dreem fleynge awei he schal not be foundun; he schal passe as `a nyytis siyt.
Update Bible Version
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Webster's Bible Translation
He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
New King James Version
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
New Living Translation
They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.
New Life Bible
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found. He will be driven away like a dream of the night.
New Revised Standard
They will fly away like a dream, and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
Revised Standard Version
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Young's Literal Translation
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Zophar from Naamah answered: 2 "You upset me, so I must answer you. I must tell you what I am thinking. 3 You insulted me with your answers! But I am wise and know how to answer you. 4"You know that the joy of the wicked does not last long. That has been true a long time, ever since Adam was put on earth. Those who don't know God are happy for only a short time. < 6 Maybe an evil man's pride will reach up to the sky, and his head will touch the clouds. 7 But he will be gone forever like his own body waste. People who knew him will say, ‘Where is he?' 8 Like a dream, he will fly away, never to be found. He will be chased away like a bad dream. 9 Those who knew him before will not see him again. His family will never again get to see him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fly away: Psalms 73:20, Psalms 18:10, Psalms 90:5, Isaiah 29:7, Isaiah 29:8

Reciprocal: Job 18:18 - chased Psalms 37:10 - wicked Daniel 11:19 - but Revelation 18:21 - and shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found,.... Either as a dream which is forgotten, as Nebuchadnezzar's was, and cannot be recovered; or as the matter and substance of a dream, which, though remembered, is a mere illusion; as when a hungry or thirsty man dreams he eats or drinks, but, awaking, finds himself empty, and not at all refreshed; what he fancied is fled and gone m, and indeed never had any existence but in his imagination, Isaiah 29:8;

yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night; either the same as a nocturnal dream, or what a man fancies he sees in his dream; or like a mere spectre or apparition, which is a mere phantom, and, when followed and pursued, vanishes and disappears; so such a man before described is chased out of the world, and is seen in it no more, see

Job 18:18; the first clause, according to Sephorno, refers to the generation of the flood, and the second to the slaying of the firstborn of Egypt in the night.

m σκιας οναρ ανθρωποι, Pindar. Pythia, Ode 8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall fly away as a dream - As a dream wholly disappears or vanishes. This comparison of man with a dream is not uncommon, and is most impressive. See Psalms 73:20; see the notes at Isaiah 29:7-8.

As a vision of the night - As when one in a dream seems to see objects which vanish when he awakes. The parallelism requires us to understand this of what appears in a dream, and not of a spectre. In our dreams we “seem” to see objects, and when we awake they vanish.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 20:8. He shall fly away as a dream — Instead of rising again from corruption, as thou hast asserted, (Job 19:26,) with a new body, his flesh shall rot in the earth, and his spirit be dissipated like a vapour; and, like a vision of the night, nothing shall remain but the bare impression that such a creature had once existed, but shall appear no more for ever.


 
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