Job 20:8
What does Job 20:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 20:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
KJV
King James Version · 1611He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Psalms 18:10
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.
- 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.
- Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night.
- Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
- Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
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