Job 7:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.”
A short, plain-language explanation of Job 7:8 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
“The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes <FI>are<Fi> upon me--and I am not.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 7:8 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 8:18If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
- Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
- Psalms 103:16when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
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