Job 20:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He will fly away like a dream and will not be found; yes, he will be chased away as a vision of the night.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Common English Bible

⁸ They will disappear like a dream, and none will find them, carried away like a nighttime vision.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.

Job 20:8 Cross References

Psalm 90:5

You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

Psalm 73:20

They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.

Psalm 18:10

He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.

Job 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten them on every side and chase them at their heels.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake them like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries them off.

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Daniel 11:19

Then he shall turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall and shall not be found.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Job 7:8

The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

Job 7:21

Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are established forever.