Job 20:9

9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more 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 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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