Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
KJV
Velut somnium avolans non invenietur : transiet sicut visio nocturna.
Vulgate
ὥσπερ ἐνύπνιον ἐκπετασθὲν οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ, ἔπτη δὲ ὥσπερ φάσμα νυκτερινόν·
LXX
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
ASV
כַּ/חֲל֣וֹם יָ֭עוּף וְ/לֹ֣א יִמְצָא֑וּ/הוּ וְ֝/יֻדַּ֗ד כְּ/חֶזְי֥וֹן לָֽיְלָה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הוּ
hv
verb · 455×
חֲל֣וֹם
chlvm
noun · 64×
חִזָּי֑וֹן
chzyvn
noun · 9×
יָּ֖עַף
y'p
verb · 32×
לָ֑יְלָה
lylh
noun · 234×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נָדְדָ֖ה
nddh
verb · 28×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Dan 11:19 — Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.
- Isa 29:7 — And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- Isa 29:7 — And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
- Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 18:18 — He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Ps 37:10 — For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
- Ps 73:20 — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Ps 73:20 — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Rev 18:21 — And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.