Job 20:7
Strong's Lexicon
he will perish
יֹאבֵ֑ד (yō·ḇêḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.) 1a3) be lost, strayed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) 1b3) cause to stray, lose 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to destroy, put to death 1c1a) of divine judgment 1c2) object name of kings (fig.)

forever,
לָנֶ֣צַח (lā·ne·ṣaḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5331: 1) eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingness 1a) eminence 1b) enduring of life 1c) endurance in time, perpetual, continual, unto the end 1d) everlastingness, ever

like his own dung;
כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ (kə·ḡe·lă·lōw)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1561: 1) dung, ball of dung

those who had seen him
רֹ֝אָ֗יו (rō·’āw)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: 1) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to see 1a2) to see, perceive 1a3) to see, have vision 1a4) to look at, see, regard, look after, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out 1a5) to see, observe, consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish 1a6) to look at, gaze at 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to appear, present oneself 1b2) to be seen 1b3) to be visible 1c) (Pual) to be seen 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to cause to see, show 1d2) to cause to look intently at, behold, cause to gaze at 1e) (Hophal) 1e1) to be caused to see, be shown 1e2) to be exhibited to 1f) (Hithpael) to look at each other, face

will ask,
יֹאמְר֥וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: 1) to say, speak, utter 1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend 1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called 1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly 1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

‘Where is he ?’
אַיּֽוֹ׃ (’ay·yōw)
Interrogative | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 335: 1) where?, whence? 2) which?, how? (in prefix with other adverb)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Young's Literal Translation
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders 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? ” 

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

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

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?'

NET Bible
he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will 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?

English Revised Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: 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 thee.

Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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

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

Obadiah 1:4
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 20:6
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 20:4
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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