Job 20:8

WEB

⁸He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

KJV

⁸He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

BSB

⁸He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

FBV

⁸They will vanish like a dream, never to be found, fleeing like a vision of the night.

Extra References

Psalms 90:5

⁵You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Psalms 73:20

²⁰As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord,^[+] when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Job 18:18

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

⁷The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night. ⁸It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Psalms 18:10

¹⁰He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.

Job 27:21-23

²¹The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place. ²²For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand. ²³Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.