Job 20:9
What does Job 20:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 20:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 7:8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
- Job 27:3
(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
- Job 8:18
If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
- Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
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