Job 20:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 14:10 : 10 So I will send evil on the line of Jeroboam, cutting off from his family every male child, those who are shut up and those who go free in Israel; the family of Jeroboam will be brushed away like a man brushing away waste till it is all gone.
  • 2 Kgs 9:37 : 37 And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
  • Job 4:20 : 20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
  • Job 7:10 : 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
  • Job 8:18 : 18 If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 20:8-9
    2 verses
    86%

    8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

    9The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 20:6
    78%

    6Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;

  • Job 18:14-20
    7 verses
    75%

    14He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

    15In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

    19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

    20At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

  • Job 7:8-10
    3 verses
    74%

    8The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

    9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 4:19-21
    3 verses
    74%

    19How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

    21If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

  • Ps 49:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

    20Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Job 14:2
    73%

    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Job 21:32-33
    2 verses
    73%

    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

    33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

  • Job 15:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Ps 49:12
    73%

    12But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Ps 37:36
    72%

    36But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • Job 24:20
    72%

    20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Job 33:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

    22And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • Ps 49:17
    71%

    17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Job 20:11
    71%

    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

    27The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

  • Ps 146:4
    71%

    4Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Ps 112:10
    71%

    10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • Job 14:10
    71%

    10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Job 27:19
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    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Job 21:26
    71%

    26Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Ps 52:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

    6The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Job 14:20
    71%

    20You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Ps 144:4
    70%

    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 34:15
    70%

    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 41:9
    70%

    9His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 13:28
    70%

    28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

  • Job 21:20
    70%

    20Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!

  • Job 18:6
    69%

    6The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Ps 83:10
    69%

    10Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

  • Jer 9:22
    69%

    22The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

  • Jer 22:19
    69%

    19They will do to him what they do to the dead body of an ass; his body will be pulled out and placed on the earth outside the doors of Jerusalem.