Job 20:8
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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