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Job 20:7 Cross-References

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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:7 (KJV)

Commentary on Job 20:7

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung (כְּגֶלְלוֹ לָנֶצַח יֹאבֵד, keglelo lanetsach yoved)—Zophar delivers the book's most visceral, repulsive image: the wicked person perishes כְּגֶלְלוֹ (keglelo, 'like his dung/excrement'). The noun גָּלָל (galal) is animal dung, used for fuel but considered unclean. לָנֶצַח (lanetsach, 'forever, perpetually') intensifies the judgment: permanent rubbish.They which have seen him shall say, Where is he? (רֹאָיו יֹאמְרוּ אַיּוֹ, ro'av yomru 'ayyo)—The wicked vanish so completely that witnesses ask אַיּוֹ ('ayyo, 'Where?')—an interrogative of absence. Z...

Source: KJV Study Commentary

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