Job 20:8

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

American King James Version (AKJV)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

American Standard Version (ASV)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

Webster's Revision

He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

World English Bible

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

English Revised Version (ERV)

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Definitions for Job 20:8

Yea - Yes; certainly.

Clarke's Job 20:8 Bible Commentary

He shall fly away as a dream - Instead of rising again from corruption, as thou hast asserted, (Job 19:26), with a new body, his flesh shall rot in the earth, and his spirit be dissipated like a vapor; and, like a vision of the night, nothing shall remain but the bare impression that such a creature had once existed, but shall appear no more for ever.

Barnes's Job 20:8 Bible Commentary

He shall fly away as a dream - As a dream wholly disappears or vanishes. This comparison of man with a dream is not uncommon, and is most impressive. See Psalm 73:20; see the notes at Isaiah 29:7-8.

As a vision of the night - As when one in a dream seems to see objects which vanish when he awakes. The parallelism requires us to understand this of what appears in a dream, and not of a spectre. In our dreams we "seem" to see objects, and when we awake they vanish.

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