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Job 20:9

The eye which saw him will see him no more. His place will no longer 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.
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 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 the Naamathite answered, 2 "My troubled thoughts make me answer, because I have no rest inside. 3 I heard the strong words that take away my honor. The spirit of my understanding makes me answer. 4 Do you not know from long ago, since man was put on earth, 5 that the honor of the sinful is short, and the joy of the sinful lasts only a short time? 6 Even if his pride is as high as the heavens and his head touches the clouds, 7 he will be gone forever, like his own waste. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?' 8 He will fly away like a dream, and not be found. He will be driven away like a dream of the night. 9 The eye which saw him will see him no more. His place will no longer 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
Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 20:10
Abimelech said to Abraham, "What made you do such a thing?"
Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I did it because I thought there was no fear of God in this place. I thought they would kill me because of my wife.
Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had stopped all births in the house of Abimelech because of Abraham's wife Sarah.
Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the men might have lain with your wife. And you would have brought guilt upon us."
Genesis 34:7
Jacob's sons returned from the field when they heard what had happened. They were full of sorrow and were angry. For Shechem had put Israel to shame by lying with Jacob's daughter. Such a thing should not be done.
Genesis 38:24
About three months later, Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has sold the use of her body. She is going to have a baby by doing this sinful thing." Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"
Genesis 39:9
There is no one more important in this house than I. And he has held nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this sinful thing, and sin against God?"
Exodus 32:21
Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you to make you bring such great sin upon them?"
Exodus 32:35
Then the Lord sent trouble upon the people, because of what they did with the calf Aaron had 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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