Ayub 20:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bagaikan impian ia melayang hilang, tak berbekas, lenyap bagaikan penglihatan waktu malam.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bagaikan impian ia melayang hilang, tak berbekas, lenyap bagaikan penglihatan waktu malam.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa lenyaplah ia seperti mimpi, tiada didapati oranglah akan dia pula, dan terbanglah seperti suatu khayal pada malam.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide: ² For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste. ³ I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere. ⁴ Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth, ⁵ That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified vp to the heauen, so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night. ⁹ So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

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.