Job 11:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Job 11:20 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Job 31:16
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Lamentations 4:17
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-20)

Zophar, as the other two, here encourages Job to hope for better times if he would but come to a better temper. I. He gives him good counsel (Job 11:13, 14), as Eliphaz did (Job 5:8), and Bildad, Job 8:5. He would have him repent and return to God. Observe the steps of that return. 1. He must look within, and get his mind changed and the tree made good. He must prepare his heart; there the work of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. A warning to Job, if he would not turn to God. The wicked--that is, obdurate sinners. eyes ... fail--that is, in vain look for relief (De 28:65). Zophar implies Job’s only hope of relief is in a change of heart. they shall not escape--literally, “every refuge shall vanish from them.” giving up of the ghost--Their hope shall leave them as the breath does the body (Pr 11:7).