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Job 20:8

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20:8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found,15

and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

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Footnotes

  1. 15 Heb “and they do not find him.” The verb has no expressed subject, and so here is equivalent to a passive. The clause itself is taken adverbially in the sentence.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He will fly away like a dream and not be found;

he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found,

banished like a vision of the night.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He will fly away like a dream and never be found;

he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

NLTNew Living Translation

They will fade like a dream and not be found.

They will vanish like a vision in the night.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him,

and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

KJV 1900King James Version

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:

Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.