Bible Strands
Job 20:9
The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Zophar addresses Job in his second speech, responding to Job's assertions of innocence and future vindication.
The words — עַ֣יִן ('ayin) means "eye" and מְקוֹמֽ/וֹ (meqomo) means "his place." The verse pairs these terms to describe permanent physical and social erasure.
The thread — This pattern of vanished sight and forgotten location appears in Job 7:8, Job 7:10, and Job 8:18.
Why it lands — The text states that the wicked will be permanently removed from observation and memory. It asks the reader to acknowledge that worldly power and wealth leave no enduring trace.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
Cross-references
- Job 7:8 The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 7:10 He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
- Job 8:18 If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
- Job 20:7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- Psalms 37:10 Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
- Psalms 37:36 yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Job 27:3 as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
- Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;