9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.
He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again.
And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.
And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
For all the while my breath `is' in me, And the spirit of God 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.