Job 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'

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

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

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

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

International Standard Version
he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, '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?

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

Cross References

Job 4:20
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Job 8:18
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen you.

Job 14:20
You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.

Job 27:19
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.

Isaiah 41:12
You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nothing.

Obadiah 1:4
Though you exalt yourself as the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, there will I bring you down, said the LORD.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).