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- Chapter 20
- Verse 7
Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung,.... Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternity,…
Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man,…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
like his own dung Zophar is not the most refined of the three, cf. 2Ki 9:37. On the last words of the verse cf. ch. Job 14:10.
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