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Literal Standard Version

Job 20:9

The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
Those who knew him before will not see him again. His family will never again get to see him.
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

1And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says: 2"Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me. 3I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer: 4Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth? 5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment, 6Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud— 7He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he? 8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night, 9The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.

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
And Pharaoh calls for Abram and says, "What [is] this you have done to me? Why have you not declared to me that she [is] your wife?
Genesis 20:10
Abimelech also says to Abraham, "What have you seen that you have done this thing?"
Genesis 20:11
And Abraham says, "Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
Genesis 20:18
for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:10
And Abimelech says, "What [is] this you have done to us? As a little thing one of the people had lain with your wife, and you had brought on us guilt";
Genesis 34:7
and the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard, and the men grieve themselves, and it [is] very displeasing to them, for folly he has done against Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob—and so it is not done.
Genesis 38:24
And it comes to pass about three months [after], that it is declared to Judah, saying, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has committed fornication; and also, behold, she has conceived by fornication": and Judah says, "Bring her out—and she is burned."
Genesis 39:9
none is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything, except you, because you [are] his wife; and how will I do this great evil? Then I have sinned against God."
Exodus 32:21
And Moses says to Aaron, "What has this people done to you, that you have brought in a great sin on it?"
Exodus 32:35
And YHWH plagues the people because they made the calf which Aaron made.

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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