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Job 20:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? "
Job 20:7
Verse in Context
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5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall 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.
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Job 20:1
"Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,"
Job 20:2
"Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste."
Job 20:3
"I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer."
Job 20:4
"Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,"
Job 20:5
"That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"
Job 20:6
"Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
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