9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer; and his place has no more knowledge of him.
The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.
(For all my breath is still in me, and the spirit of God is my life;)
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Commentary on Job 20 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 20
One would have thought that such an excellent confession of faith as Job made, in the close of the foregoing chapter, would satisfy his friends, or at least mollify them; but they do not seem to have taken any notice of it, and therefore Zophar here takes his turn, enters the lists with Job, and attacks him with as much vehemence as before.
But the great mistake was, and (as bishop Patrick expresses it) all the flaw in his discourse (which was common to him with the rest), that he imagined God never varied from this method, and therefore Job was, without doubt, a very bad man, though it did not appear that he was, any other way than by his infelicity.
Job 20:1-9
Here,
Job 20:10-22
The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe,
Job 20:23-29
Zophar, having described the many embarrassments and vexations which commonly attend the wicked practices of oppressors and cruel men, here comes to show their utter ruin at last.