Job 20:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
  • Job 7:10 : 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
  • Job 8:18 : 18 If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’
  • Ps 37:10 : 10 Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes, 16 but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
  • Job 20:7 : 7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’
  • Job 27:3 : 3 for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

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  • Job 20:7-8
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    86%

    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

  • Job 7:7-10
    4 verses
    85%

    7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

    8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Job 20:10
    77%

    10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

  • Ps 49:19
    77%

    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Job 19:27
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    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

  • Job 27:19
    76%

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

  • Job 18:17-20
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    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.

    20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

  • Ps 37:36
    75%

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

  • Isa 38:11
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    11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 8:18
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    18If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’

  • Job 20:20-21
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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

  • Job 9:11
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    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Jer 22:12
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    12For he will die in the country where they took him as a captive. He will never see this land again.”

  • Job 21:20-21
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    20Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

    21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Job 11:20
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    20But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

  • Job 41:9
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    9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

  • Job 34:21
    72%

    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

  • Eccl 6:5
    72%

    5though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man–

  • Jer 22:10
    72%

    10Judgment on Jehoahaz“‘Do not weep for the king who was killed. Do not grieve for him. But weep mournfully for the king who has gone into exile. For he will never return to see his native land again.

  • Job 24:20
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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

  • Ezek 24:16
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    16“Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

  • Isa 33:17
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    17You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Job 33:21
    71%

    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Ps 10:11
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    11He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Job 23:9
    71%

    9In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

  • Job 20:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter.

    18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

  • Ps 37:10
    70%

    10Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Ps 49:9
    70%

    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

  • Job 21:32
    70%

    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Job 9:25
    70%

    25Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

  • Job 24:15
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    15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.