Job 20:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt 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 munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an 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 as a storm hurleth him out of his place. 22 For [God] shall cast upon 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 did fly upon the wings of the wind.

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  • Job 20:6-7
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    6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

    7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

  • 9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

  • Job 18:15-20
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    15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

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

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

    19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

    20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

  • 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 7:8-10
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    8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.

    9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].

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

  • Job 27:19-22
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    19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.

    20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

    21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

    22 For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

  • 2 He 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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    28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • 20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26 All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

    27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

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

    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

  • 18 If he destroy him from his place, then [it] shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee.

  • 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.

  • 8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.

  • 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.

  • 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.

  • 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

  • 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not [one] be cast down even at the sight of him?

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

  • 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 20 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel shall strike him through.

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

    21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

  • 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

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

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

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

  • 18 ¶ He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.