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Job 20:7-9
New English Translation
Job 20:7-9
New English Translation
7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement;[a]
those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found,[b]
and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
9 People[c] who had seen him will not see him again,
and the place where he was
will recognize him no longer.
Footnotes
- Job 20:7 tn There have been attempts to change the word here to “like a whirlwind,” or something similar. But many argue that there is no reason to remove a coarse expression from Zophar.
- Job 20:8 tn Heb “and they do not find him.” The verb has no expressed subject, and so here is equivalent to a passive. The clause itself is taken adverbially in the sentence.
- Job 20:9 tn Heb “the eye that had seen him.” Here a part of the person (the eye, the instrument of vision) is put by metonymy for the entire person.
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