Job 20:8

American Standard Version (1901)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
  • Isa 29:7-8 : 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. 8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
  • Job 27:21-23 : 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place. 22 For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.

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    6Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

    7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

  • Job 20:9
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    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Job 18:15-20
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    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

    20They that come after shall be astonished at his day, As they that went before were affrighted.

  • Ps 37:36
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    36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 7:8-10
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    8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 27:19-22
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    19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

    21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.

    22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • Ps 73:20
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    20As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: A fire not blown [by man] shall devour him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, And the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

  • Job 8:18
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    18If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

  • Job 11:20
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    20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

  • Ps 58:8
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    8[ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Job 9:26
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    26They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.

  • Job 33:21
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Amos 2:14
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    14And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

  • Job 21:18
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    18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

  • Job 41:9
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    9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • Job 9:11
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    11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

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    4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

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    4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 34:20
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    20In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

  • Job 14:12
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    12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Job 20:24
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    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

    21There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Job 21:32
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    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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

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    10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.

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    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Job 24:18
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    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.