Job 20:8
Good News Translation
They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.

New Revised Standard Version
They will fly away like a dream, and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Contemporary English Version
They will be forgotten like a dream

New American Bible
Like a dream he takes flight and cannot be found; he fades away like a vision of the night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

fly away

Psalm 73:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Psalm 18:10 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.

Psalm 90:5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Isaiah 29:7,8 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it. . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he? 8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.…
Cross References
Job 18:11
Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Job 18:18
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 27:20
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

Job 27:21
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

Job 27:23
He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Psalm 73:20
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Psalm 90:5
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

Daniel 11:19
And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.

Job 20:7
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