Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
Job 20:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- 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.
- WEB
- He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
- ASV
- He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- LSV
- He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
- YLT
- As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
- DBY
- He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.
- DRC
- As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
- GNV
- He shall flee away as a dreame, and they shall not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
- JPS
- He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
- LXXE
- Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כַּחֲל֣וֹם יָ֭עוּף וְלֹ֣א יִמְצָא֑וּהוּ וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד כְּחֶזְי֥וֹן לָֽיְלָה׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ, ἔπτη δὲ ὥσπερ φάσμα νυκτερινόν.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalms 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Isaiah 29:7–8All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night, as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then…
- Psalms 18:10He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Job 27:21–23The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
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