Teks -- Job 20:8 (NET)

20:8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

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JFB: Job 20:8

(Psa 73:20).

Clarke: Job 20:8 - He shall fly away as a dream

He shall fly away as a dream - Instead of rising again from corruption, as thou hast asserted, (Job 19:26), with a new body, his flesh shall rot in the earth, and his spirit be dissipated like a vapor; and, like a vision of the night, nothing shall remain but the bare impression that such a creature had once existed, but shall appear no more for ever.

TSK: Job 20:8 - fly away

fly away : Psa 73:20, Psa 18:10, Psa 90:5; Isa 29:7, Isa 29:8

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Poole: Job 20:8 - As a dream // Shall not be found // As a vision of the night

As a dream which for the present makes a great show and noise, and highly affects the fancy, but hath nothing solid nor permanent in it; for as soon as the man awakes all vanisheth, and the remembrance of it is quickly lost.

Shall not be found the man will be utterly lost and gone, together with all his riches and glory.

As a vision of the night which appears to a man in the night and in his sleep.

Haydock: Job 20:8 - Fleeth

Fleeth. The poets assign wings to sleep and to dreams. (Homer, &c.) Isaias (xxix. 7.) describes a man who dreams that he is eating, and finds himself hungry when he awakes. Such is the live of the avaricious, (Calmet) and of all wicked people. (Haydock)

Gill: Job 20:8 - He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found // yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found,.... Either as a dream which is forgotten, as Nebuchadnezzar's was, and cannot be recovered; or as the matter and substance of a dream, which, though remembered, is a mere illusion; as when a hungry or thirsty man dreams he eats or drinks, but, awaking, finds himself empty, and not at all refreshed; what he fancied is fled and gone ^m, and indeed never had any existence but in his imagination, Isa 29:8;

yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night; either the same as a nocturnal dream, or what a man fancies he sees in his dream; or like a mere spectre or apparition, which is a mere phantom, and, when followed and pursued, vanishes and disappears; so such a man before described is chased out of the world, and is seen in it no more, see Job 18:18; the first clause, according to Sephorno, refers to the generation of the flood, and the second to the slaying of the firstborn of Egypt in the night.