Job 20:9
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New International Version (©2011)
The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him.

NET Bible (©2006)
People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Eyes that saw him will see him no more. His home will not look at him again.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

American King James Version
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

American Standard Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

Darby Bible Translation
The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

English Revised Version
The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

Webster's Bible Translation
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

World English Bible
The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

Young's Literal Translation
The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

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 9. - The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; or, the eye which scanned him. The verb used (שָׁזַך) is a rare one, occurring only here, in Job 28:7, and in Song of Solomon 1:6. In the former passage it is used of a falcon, in the latter of the sun. Neither shall his place any more behold him (comp. Psalm 103:16, "The place thereof shall know it no more").

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. Rather "the eye followeth him, but can discern him no more." A sharp-looking is meant (Job 28:7; Job 7:10).

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Zophar: Triumph of the Wicked Short-lived
…8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. …

Job 7:8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.
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.'
Psalm 103:16 the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.