Job 20:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

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  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows 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 of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and his soul has 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 carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place. 22 For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly 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 flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind.

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    6Though his greatness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds,

    7Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will 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 behold him any longer.

  • Job 18:15-20
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    15It shall dwell in his tent, because it is no longer his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

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

    17His memory 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 neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

    20Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were terrified.

  • Ps 37:36
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    36Yet he passed away, and indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 7:8-10
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    8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Job 27:19-22
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    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

    21The east wind carries him away, and he departs; and as a storm hurls him out of his place.

    22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

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

  • Ps 73:20
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    20As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when You wake up, You shall despise their image.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains 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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    5Indeed, 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 dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.

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

  • Job 11:20
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    20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • Ps 58:8
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    8As a snail that melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

  • Job 4:20
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    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Job 9:26
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    26They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to 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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    14Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not reinforce his strength, neither shall the mighty save himself:

  • Job 21:18
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    18They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.

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

  • Job 9:11
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    11Lo, He passes by me, and I see Him not: He goes by also, but I do not perceive Him.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

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    4Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

  • Job 34:20
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    20In a moment they shall die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

  • Job 14:12
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    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

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

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

    21None of his food shall be left; therefore no one shall look for his goods.

  • Job 21:32
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    32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Job 14:20
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    20You prevail forever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance and send him away.

  • Ps 112:10
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    10The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 24:18
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    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.