Ayub 20:8

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama

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

Parallel Translations

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

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Bagaikan impian ia melayang hilang, tak berbekas, lenyap bagaikan penglihatan waktu malam.

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.