9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more, Neither shall his place any more see him.
The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.
But he passed away, and, behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
(For the length of my life is still in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
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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.