Job 20:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
American King James Version (AKJV)
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.
Webster's Revision
He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
World English Bible
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
English Revised Version (ERV)
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Definitions for Job 20:8
Clarke's Job 20:8 Bible Commentary
He shall fly away as a dream - Instead of rising again from corruption, as thou hast asserted, (Job 19:26), with a new body, his flesh shall rot in the earth, and his spirit be dissipated like a vapor; and, like a vision of the night, nothing shall remain but the bare impression that such a creature had once existed, but shall appear no more for ever.
Barnes's Job 20:8 Bible Commentary
He shall fly away as a dream - As a dream wholly disappears or vanishes. This comparison of man with a dream is not uncommon, and is most impressive. See Psalm 73:20; see the notes at Isaiah 29:7-8.
As a vision of the night - As when one in a dream seems to see objects which vanish when he awakes. The parallelism requires us to understand this of what appears in a dream, and not of a spectre. In our dreams we "seem" to see objects, and when we awake they vanish.