Job 20:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Isaiah 29:7-8
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. …
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 27:21-23
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. …

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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. 8)

8. (Psa 73:20).