Job 20:9

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 But they will disappear forever, like the waste from their own bodies. Anyone who has seen them will say, 'Where did they go?'

8 Like a dream they will fly away. They will never be seen again. They will be driven away like visions in the night.

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

10 Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.

11 They might feel young and very strong. But they will soon lie down in the dust of their graves.