Job 20:7

Old Testament Wisdom/Poetry ASV (1901)

What does Job 20:7 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Job 20:7 — American Standard Version

Context — Job 20

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung, etc.] 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, and that in the most shameful and disgraceful manner; he shall perish in his own corruption, and like his own dung inevitably, which is never returned to its place again: dead bodies were reckoned by the ancients as dung, and the carcasses of men are rather to be cast out than dung f774; and the Arabians used, to bury in dunghills even their kings f775; to which some f776 think the allusion is: they which have seen him shall say, where [is] he? such as formerly gazed at him, in his…”
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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“dung--in contrast to the haughtiness of the sinner (Job 20:6); this strong term expresses disgust and the lowest degradation (Psa 83:10; Kg1 14:10).”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Tyndale Open Study Notes · Modern study notes
“20:7 thrown away like their own dung: Cp. 1 Kgs 14:9-11; 2 Kgs 9:36-37; Ps 83:10; Jer 8:1-2.”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“perish: Kg1 14:10; Kg2 9:37; Psa 83:10; Jer 8:2 shall say: Job 14:10 Job 20:8”
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