Job 20:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

Job 20:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:8
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 8:18
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Psalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Topics

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

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. 9)

9. Rather “the eye followeth him, but can discern him no more.” A sharp-looking is meant (Job 28:7; Job 7:10).