Job 20:8
Strong's Lexicon
He will fly away
יָ֭עוּף (yā·‘ūp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5774: v 1) to fly, fly about, fly away 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to fly, hover 1a2) to fly away 1b) (Hiphil) to cause to fly, light upon 1c) (Polel) 1c1) to fly about or to and fro 1c2) to cause to fly to and fro, brandish 1d) (Hithpolel) to fly away 2) (Qal) to cover, be dark n f 3) gloom

like a dream,
כַּחֲל֣וֹם (ka·ḥă·lō·wm)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2472: 1) dream 1a) dream (ordinary) 1b) dream (with prophetic meaning)

never
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

to be found;
יִמְצָא֑וּהוּ (yim·ṣā·’ū·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: 1) to find, attain to 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to find 1a1a) to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought) 1a1b) to find (what is lost) 1a1c) to meet, encounter 1a1d) to find (a condition) 1a1e) to learn, devise 1a2) to find out 1a2a) to find out 1a2b) to detect 1a2c) to guess 1a3) to come upon, light upon 1a3a) to happen upon, meet, fall in with 1a3b) to hit 1a3c) to befall 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be found 1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered 1b1b) to appear, be recognised 1b1c) to be discovered, be detected 1b1d) to be gained, be secured 1b2) to be, be found 1b2a) to be found in 1b2b) to be in the possession of 1b2c) to be found in (a place), happen to be 1b2d) to be left (after war) 1b2e) to be present 1b2f) to prove to be 1b2g) to be found sufficient, be enough 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to find, attain 1c2) to cause to light upon, come upon, come 1c3) to cause to encounter 1c4) to present (offering)

he will be chased away
וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד (wə·yud·daḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5074: 1) to retreat, flee, depart, move, wander abroad, stray, flutter 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to retreat, flee 1a2) to flee, depart 1a3) to wander, stray 1a4) to flutter (of birds) 1b) (Poal) to flee away, be chased 1c) (Hiphil) to chase away 1d) (Hophal) to be chased away 1e) (Hithpolel) to flee away

like a vision
כְּחֶזְי֥וֹן (kə·ḥez·yō·wn)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2384: 1) vision 1a) vision (in the ecstatic state) 1a1) valley of vision (perhaps fig. of Jerusalem or Hinnom) 1b) vision (in the night) 1c) vision, oracle, prophecy (in divine communication)

in the night.
לָֽיְלָה׃ (lā·yə·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: 1) night 1a) night (as opposed to day) 1b) of gloom, protective shadow (fig.)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Young's Literal Translation
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will fly away like  a dream and  never be found; he will be chased away like  a vision in the night. 

New American Standard Bible
"He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

King James Bible
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

New Living Translation
They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.

English Standard Version
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

New American Standard Bible
"He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

King James Bible
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

International Standard Version
He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."

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

American Standard 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.

English Revised 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.

Young's Literal Translation
As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
















Cross References
Job 18:11
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

Psalm 73:20
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

Psalm 90:5
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Psalm 90:10
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.

Isaiah 29:7
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.

Daniel 11:19
Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
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