Job 8:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ If they are destroyed from their place, then it will deny them, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ If he destroy him from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ If it’s uprooted from its place, it lies, saying, “I can’t see you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ If someone is devoured right beside him, he will deny him and will say: "I do not know you."

Job 8:18 Cross References

Job 7:10

they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.

Psalm 37:36

Again I passed by, and they were no more; though I sought them, they could not be found.

Job 7:8

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

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,

Psalm 37:10

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.

Job 20:9

The eye that saw them will see them no more, nor will their place behold them any longer.

Job 8:17

Their roots twine around the stoneheap; they live among the rocks.

Job 20:7

they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’

Psalm 103:16

for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.