Job 20:7
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New International Version (©2011)
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

New Living Translation (©2007)
yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, 'Where are they?'

English Standard Version (©2001)
he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, 'Where is he?'

NET Bible (©2006)
he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
he will certainly rot like his own feces. Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

American King James Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

American Standard Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?

Darby Bible Translation
Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

English Revised Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

World English Bible
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

Young's Literal Translation
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where is he?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:1-9 Zophar's discourse is upon the certain misery of the wicked. The triumph of the wicked and the joy of the hypocrite are fleeting. The pleasures and gains of sin bring disease and pain; they end in remorse, anguish, and ruin. Dissembled piety is double iniquity, and the ruin that attends it will be accordingly.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7.- Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung. Some understand "his own dung-heap," regarding the "ashes" of Job 2:8 as, in reality, a heap of refuse of all kinds; but it is simple

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung,.... Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternity, and that in the most shameful and disgraceful manner; he shall perish in his own corruption, and like his own dung inevitably, which is never returned to its place again: dead bodies were reckoned by the ancients as dung, and the carcasses of men are rather to be cast out than dung (i); and the Arabians used, to bury in dunghills even their kings (k); to which some (l) think the allusion is:

they which have seen him shall say, where is he? such as formerly gazed at him, in his prosperity, with wonder and amazement at his grandeur and greatness, now being removed from his outward splendour, or from the world, by death, ask where he is, not being able to see him in his former lustre, nor in the land of the living; see Job 14:10.

(i) Heraclitus apud Strabo. Geograph. l. 16. p. 539. (k) Strabo, ib. (l) Pineda in loc.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. dung—in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner (Job 20:6); this strong term expresses disgust and the lowest degradation (Ps 83:10; 1Ki 14:10).

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Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked Short-lived
…6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds; 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. …

Job 4:20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Job 7:10 He will never come to his house again; his place will know him no more.
Job 8:18 But when it is torn from its spot, that place disowns it and says, 'I never saw you.'
Job 14:20 You overpower them once for all, and they are gone; you change their countenance and send them away.
Job 27:19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Isaiah 41:12 Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all.
Obadiah 1:4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.