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Job 20:9

Those who knew him before will not see him again. His family will never again get to see him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hypocrisy;   Wicked (People);   Worldliness;   The Topic Concordance - Oppression;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ambition;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The eye that saw him will see him no more,and his household will no longer see him.
Hebrew Names Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.
King James Version
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
English Standard Version
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
New Century Version
Those who saw them will not see them again; the places where they lived will see them no more.
New English Translation
People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
Amplified Bible
"The eye which saw him sees him no longer, Neither does his [accustomed] place behold him any longer.
New American Standard Bible
"The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him.
World English Bible
The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.
Legacy Standard Bible
The eye which saw him sees him no longer,And his place no longer beholds him.
Berean Standard Bible
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
Contemporary English Version
and vanish from the sight of family and friends.
Complete Jewish Bible
The eye which once saw him will see him no more, his place will not behold him again.
Darby Translation
The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
George Lamsa Translation
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall they see his place again.
Good News Translation
The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;
Lexham English Bible
The eye that saw him will not see him again, and his place will no longer behold him.
Literal Translation
An eye glimpsed him, but will not again; yea, his place shall not again see him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So that the eye which sawe him before, getteth now no sight of him, & his place knoweth him nomore.
American Standard Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
Bible in Basic English
The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
King James Version (1611)
The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The eye has looked upon him, but shall not see him again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.
English Revised Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The iye that siy hym schal not se; and his place schal no more biholde him.
Update Bible Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place anymore look at him.
Webster's Bible Translation
The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
New King James Version
The eye that saw him will see him no more, Nor will his place behold him anymore.
New Living Translation
Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.
New Life Bible
The eye which saw him will see him no more. His place will no longer see him.
New Revised Standard
The eye that saw them will see them no more, nor will their place behold them any longer.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
Revised Standard Version
The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
Young's Literal Translation
The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him.

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

The eye: Job 20:7, Job 7:8, Job 7:10, Job 8:18, Job 27:3, Psalms 37:10, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 103:15, Psalms 103:16

Reciprocal: Revelation 12:8 - their

Cross-References

Genesis 12:18
Pharaoh called Abram and said to him, "You have done a very bad thing to me! Why didn't you tell me Sarai was your wife?
Genesis 20:10
What were you afraid of? Why did you do this to me?"
Genesis 20:11
Then Abraham said, "I thought no one in this place respected God. I thought someone would kill me to get Sarah.
Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "You have done a bad thing to us. One of our men might have had sex with your wife. Then he would be guilty of a great sin."
Genesis 34:7
In the fields Jacob's sons heard the news about what had happened. They were very angry because Shechem had brought shame to Israel by raping Jacob's daughter. They came in from the fields as soon as they heard about the terrible thing Shechem had done.
Genesis 38:24
About three months later, someone told Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar sinned like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant." Then Judah said, "Take her out and burn her."
Genesis 39:9
My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I cannot sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God."
Exodus 32:21
Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you that would make you do this? Why did you lead them to do such a terrible sin?"
Exodus 32:35
So the Lord caused a terrible sickness to come to the people. He did this because they told Aaron to make the golden calf.
Leviticus 20:10
"If a man has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife, both the man and the woman are guilty of adultery and must be put to death!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more,.... In this world, concerned in the affairs of life, and busy in worldly employments, and especially in the grandeur he sometimes was, if not removed by death; but the former sense seems most agreeable by what follows,

neither shall his place any more behold him; the men of his place, as Ben Gersom, those that lived in the same place he did; or he shall not be seen, and known, and acknowledged any more as the master, owner, and proprietor of the house he formerly dwelt in; this seems to be taken from Job's own words in Job 7:10. The above Jewish commentator interprets this verse of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, whom Moses and the Israelites would see no more, Exodus 10:29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The eye also which saw him - This is almost exactly the language which Job uses respecting himself. See Job 7:8, note; Job 7:10, note.


 
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