The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
The eye of him hath seen, who beholds me [present, not past, as English version] - i:e., in the very act of beholding me, seeth me no more. "Thine eyes (are) upon me, and I am not?" He disappears from this earth (cf. Job 7:21; Psalms 37:36) even while God is looking upon him. Job cannot survive the gaze of Yahweh - "He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth" (Psalms 104:32). "From, whose face the earth and the heavens fled away" (Revelation 20:11). Not as Umbreit, 'Thine eyes seek me, and I am not to be found;' for God's eye penetrates even to the unseen world. "If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there" (Psalms 139:8). Umbreit unnaturally takes Thine to refer to one of the three friends.