Job 20:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Webster's Revision
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
World English Bible
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
English Revised Version (ERV)
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Clarke's Job 20:7 Bible Commentary
He shall perish for ever - He is dust, and shall return to the dust from which he was taken. Zophar here hints his disbelief in that doctrine, the resurrection of the body, which Job had so solemnly asserted in the preceding chapter. Or he might have been like some in the present day, who believe that the wicked shall be annihilated, and the bodies of the righteous only be raised from the dead; but I know of no scripture by which such a doctrine is confirmed.
Like his own dung - His reputation shall be abominable, and his putrid carcass shall resemble his own excrement. A speech that partakes as much of the malevolence as of the asperity of Zophar's spirit.
