Job 20:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • Ps 90:5 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
  • Isa 29:7-8 : 7 The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. 8 It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn't satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.
  • 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. It sweeps him out of his place. 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
  • Ps 18:10 : 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

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  • Job 20:9
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    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

  • Job 18:15-20
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    15There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

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

    19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

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

  • Ps 37:36
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    36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Job 7:8-10
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    8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

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

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

  • Job 27:19-22
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    19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

    20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

    21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

    22For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Job 15:28-30
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • Ps 73:20
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    20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

  • Job 20:26-27
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5"Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

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  • Ps 49:19
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    19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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    20The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as 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. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

  • Ps 58:8
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    8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Job 9:26
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    26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

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    21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

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    14Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

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    11Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

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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 a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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    20In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

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    12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

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    24He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

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    20"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

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    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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    20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

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    10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

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    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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    18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.