Job 20:8
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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 will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
In other translations
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 will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Psalm 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalm 73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Isaiah 29:7-87 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.7 All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her— will be like a dream, like a vision in the night, 8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
- Job 27:21-2321 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place. 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand. 23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. 22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power. 23 It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
- Psalm 18:10And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
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