Job 20:9

9 [The] eye [that] saw him {will not see him again}, and his place will no longer behold him.

Job 20:9 Meaning and Commentary

Job 20:9

The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more
In this world, concerned in the affairs of life, and busy in worldly employments, and especially in the grandeur he sometimes was, if not removed by death; but the former sense seems most agreeable by what follows,

neither shall his place any more behold him;
the men of his place, as Ben Gersom, those that lived in the same place he did; or he shall not be seen, and known, and acknowledged any more as the master, owner, and proprietor of the house he formerly dwelt in; this seems to be taken from Job's own words in ( Job 7:10 ) . The above Jewish commentator interprets this verse of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, whom Moses and the Israelites would see no more, ( Exodus 10:29 ) ( 14:13 ) .

Job 20:9 In-Context

7 he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'
8 He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.
9 [The] eye [that] saw him {will not see him again}, and his place will no longer behold him.
10 His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.
11 His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on [the] dust.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "and it will not do again"
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