Job 20:9

9 L'oeil qui le regardait ne le regardera plus, Le lieu qu'il habitait ne l'apercevra plus.

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 Il périra pour toujours comme son ordure, Et ceux qui le voyaient diront: Où est-il?
8 Il s'envolera comme un songe, et on ne le trouvera plus; Il disparaîtra comme une vision nocturne;
9 L'oeil qui le regardait ne le regardera plus, Le lieu qu'il habitait ne l'apercevra plus.
10 Ses fils seront assaillis par les pauvres, Et ses mains restitueront ce qu'il a pris par violence.
11 La vigueur de la jeunesse, qui remplissait ses membres, Aura sa couche avec lui dans la poussière.
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