Job 20:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:7 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 14:10
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Psalms 83:10
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 4:20
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Topics

Ambition Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Care Carnal Mindedness Conceit Consistency Covetousness Deceit

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (Job 20:2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer. He takes no notice of what Job had said to move their pity, or to evidence his own…

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

(vv. 7)

7. dung--in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner (Job 20:6); this strong term expresses disgust and the lowest degradation (Psa 83:10; 1Ki 14:10).