Job 20:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:20 : 20 They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
  • Isa 29:7-8 : 7 It will be like a dream, a night vision. There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel, those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her. 8 It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
  • Job 27:21-23 : 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power. 23 It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

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    36But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

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    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

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    20They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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