Job 7:8
Good News Translation
You see me now, but never again. If you look for me, I'll be gone.

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

Contemporary English Version
I will vanish from sight, and no one, including you, will ever see me again.

New American Bible
The eye that now sees me shall no more behold me; when your eye is on me, I shall be gone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.

The eye.

Job 20:9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

Psalm 37:36 And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found.

thine eyes.

Job 13:27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 14:3 And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalm 90:8,9 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. . . .

I am not.

Job 7:21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
7Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things. 8Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more.9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 8:18
If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not.

Job 20:9
The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

Job 27:19
The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

Job 7:7
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