Job 20:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 20:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Psalms 73:20 ; see the notes at Isaiah...
Job 20:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked. His theme is, Sin br...
Job 20:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. He shall fly away as a dream - Instead of rising again from corruption, as thou hast asser...
Job 20:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. Fly away - ( Psalms 90:10 ) as a dream - ( Isaiah 29:7 ; Psalms 73:20 ). Fly a...
Job 20:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph of the wicked and his certain downfall and punishme...
Job 20:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world conveyed no Divine meaning to the man from Naamah....
Job 20:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job 19:28-29 , has vexed him, so that he speaks with i...
Job 20:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, but he was not convinced; and the spirit of his und...
Job 20:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (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...
Job 20:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found ,.... Either as a dream which is forgotten, as Nebuchadnezzar's was, and cannot be recovered; or as the matter and substance of a dream, which, t...
Job 20:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. Ver. 8. He shall fly away as a dream, &c. ] As a delightful dream is soon forgott...
Job 20:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens Though he be advanced to great dignity and authority in the world. He shall perish like his own dung Which men cast away with contempt and abhorrence...
Job 20:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wicked, making it evident that he is really speaking...
Job 20:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Zophar...
Job 20:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As a dream; which for the present makes a great show and noise, and highly affects the fancy, but hath nothing solid nor permanent in it; for as soon as the man awakes all vanisheth, and the rememb...
Job 20:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that Job was such. His argument,—like in condition, like...
Job 20:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but the present chapter may well be considered as a m...
Job 20:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

He shall fly away as a dream. The dream of life Job, in the text, speaks of life as a “dream,” a mere passing phantom of the brain. I. A dream implies a dormancy in certain faculties of our...
Job 20:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his former vehement hostility ( Job 20:7 , Job 20:15 )....
Job 20:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Pictures the End of the Ungodly
Job 20:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 29:7 ; Isaiah 29:8 ; Psalms 18:10 ; Psalms 73:20 ; Psalms 90:5

Job 20:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 20:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 20:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 20:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 20:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 20:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 20:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 20:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 20:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 20:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 20:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 20:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 20:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 20:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 20:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 20:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge