Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?
New American Standard Bible
Those who have seen him
King James Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Holman Bible
Those who know
International Standard Version
he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, "Where is he?'
A Conservative Version
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
American Standard Version
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Amplified
Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Bible in Basic English
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Darby Translation
Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Julia Smith Translation
As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?
King James 2000
Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Lexham Expanded Bible
he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'
Modern King James verseion
he shall perish forever like his dung; they who see him shall say, Where is he?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'
NET Bible
he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'
New Heart English Bible
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
Webster
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?'
Youngs Literal Translation
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where is he?'
Interlinear
'abad
Netsach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 20:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wicked Person's Joy Is Short, His Pain Long
6 Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach, 7 Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he? 8 Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 14:10
therefore, behold me! bringing misfortune against the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off the meanest pertaining to Jeroboam, whether shut up or left at large, in Israel, - and will consume after the house of Jeroboam, as one consumeth dung, till it be all gone:
2 Kings 9:37
So shall the carcass of Jezebel become like heaps of dung on the face of the field, in the town-land of Jezreel: So that they cannot say, This, is Jezebel!
Job 14:10
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Psalm 83:10
They perished at En-dor, They become manure for the soil!
Job 4:20
Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
Job 7:10
He shall not return again to his house, and his own place shall be acquainted with him no more.
Job 8:18
If one destroy him out of his place, then will it disown him saying - I have not seen thee.
Jeremiah 8:2
And shall spread them out - To the sun, and To the moon, and To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down, - They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.