Job 20:8
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 20:8 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 20:8 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 20:8 — KJV
“He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.”
— Job 20:8 (KJV)
Job 20:8 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 20:8
“Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.”
Shares key themes with Job 20:8: away, found, yea
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years”
Shares key themes with Job 20:8: fly, away, yea
“And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.”
Shares key themes with Job 20:8: dream, vision, night
“In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. had: Chaldee, saw matters: or, words”
Shares key themes with Job 20:8: dream, yea, vision
“Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. swiftly: Heb. with weariness, or, flight”
Shares key themes with Job 20:8: fly, yea, vision
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