Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 20 connects to 8 cross-references. Zophar delivers his second speech arguing that the triumph of the wicked is brief and their joy momentary. He provides a detailed account of how the wicked swallow riches but must vomit them up, and how divine wrath will rain …
Other Translations
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where <FI>is<Fi> he?'
Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Cross References
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have …
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Which perished at En–dor: they became as dung for the earth.
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth …
And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; …