Job 11:20 Parallel Translations

But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath." My Friends Have No Wisdom (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

ASV:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

BBE:

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

DBY:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and all refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope shall be the breathing out of life.

ERV:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

JPS:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.

WBS:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the expiration of the breath.

WEB:

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

YLT:

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope is a breathing out of soul!

Job 11:20 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 28:65 "Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

Job 6:9 "Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 8:13 "So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish,

Job 17:5 "He who informs against friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children also will languish.

Job 27:22 "For it will hurl at him without sparing; He will surely try to flee from its power.

Job 34:22 "There is no darkness or deep shadow Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

11:20 But the eyes {k} of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost.
(k) He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent.

WES:

11:20 Fail - Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope - They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but shall perish in them. Ghost - Shall be as vain and desperate as the hope of life is in a man, when he is at the very point of death.

MHC:

11:13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the face of the Anointed, our faces that were cast down may be lifted up; though polluted, being now washed with the blood of Christ, they may be lifted up without spot. We may draw near in full assurance of faith, when we are sprinkled from an evil conscience, Heb 10:22.

CONC:

Breath Breathe Breathing Consumed Drooping Dying Elude Escape Evil-doers Expiration Fail Flee Flight Gasp Ghost Giving Hope Lost Perished Refuge Soul Spirit Taking Vanish Wasting Wicked

Breath Breathe Breathing Consumed Drooping Dying Elude Escape Evil-Doers Eyes Fail Flee Flight Gasp Ghost Hope Last Refuge Soul Spirit Vanish Wasting Way Wicked

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