Job 20:9

9 The eye that saw them will do so no more; they won't be seen again at home.

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 they will perish forever like their dung; those who saw them will say, "Where are they?"

8 They will disappear like a dream, and none will find them, carried away like a nighttime vision.

9 The eye that saw them will do so no more; they won't be seen again at home.

10 Their children will repay the poor; their hands will give back their wealth.

11 Vigor filled their bones and now sleeps with them in the dust.