they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
Job 8:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If he destroy him from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if [God] snatches him from his property, [then having passed into the hands of others] it [his property] will forget and deny him, [saying,] I have never seen you [before, as if ashamed of him–like his former friends]. American Standard Version (1901) If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Common English Bible If it’s uprooted from its place, it lies, saying, “I can’t see you.” Catholic Public Domain Version If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: "I do not know you." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. |
they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
The eye that saw them will see them no more, nor will their place behold them any longer.
they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.
The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.
for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.
Again I passed by, and they were no more; though I sought them, they could not be found.
though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,