Job 20:8 · KJV
“He 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
{Yet} he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where {is} he?
The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Job 20 — Context
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; {clouds: Heb. cloud}
7{Yet} he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where {is} he?
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. {His children...: or, The poor shall oppress his children}
Cross References
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. {groweth...: or, is changed}
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. {He...: Heb. They shall drive him}
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.
Psalms 18:10
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Job 27:21-23
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.