Job 20:9

9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

Job 20:9 in Other Translations

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.

9 Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.

9 Though once notorious public figures, now they're nobodies, unnoticed, whether they come or go.

9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more behold him.

9 Eyes that saw him will see him no more. His home will not look at him again.

9 The eye that saw him will see [him] no more, and his household will no longer see him.

9 The eyes that saw them won't see them anymore. Even their own families won't remember them.

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 own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

Cross References

• 1. S Job 7:8