he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
Job 8:18 - Revised Standard Version If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
he will perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
The eye which saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him any more.
The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while thy 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 well at his place, he will not be there.
Again I passed by, and lo, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,