Job 20:7

In 11 translations

BSB

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

KJV

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

WEB

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

ASV

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

LSV

He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?

YLT

As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he?'

DBY

Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

DRC

In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?

GNV

Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

JPS

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'

LXXE

For when he shall seem to be now established, then he shall utterly perish: and they that knew him shall say, Where is he?

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WLC

כְּֽ֭גֶלֲלוֹ לָנֶ֣צַח יֹאבֵ֑ד רֹ֝אָ֗יו יֹאמְר֥וּ אַיּֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Ὅταν γὰρ δοκῇ ἤδη κατεστηρίχθαι, τότε εἰς τέλος ἀπολεῖται· οἱ δὲ εἰδότες αὐτὸν ἐροῦσι, ποῦ ἐστιν;

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• Job 7:10He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
• 2 Kings 9:37And Jezebel’s body will lie like dung in the field on the plot of ground at Jezreel, so that no one can say: This is Jezebel.’”
• 1 Kings 14:10Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it…
• Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
• Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
• Psalms 83:10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
• Job 4:20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
• Jeremiah 8:2They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying…

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