Job 20:8 Meaning and Explanation
“He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.”
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Read Full Chapter →The wicked man will vanish like a dream, chased away like a vision of the night.
What Does Job 20:8 Mean?
Zophar continues his portrait of sudden disappearance. The prosperous evildoer flies away “as a dream” and cannot be found, driven off like a fleeting vision that dissolves the moment one wakes. His substance turns out to be no more solid than sleep.
Dreams are a recurring picture in Scripture for everything that seems real in the moment yet has no lasting weight. The Psalmist says that when the Lord awakes, He will despise the empty image of the proud as one despises a dream. The verse quietly presses a question on us: are we living for things that endure, or for a vision of the night that will be gone by morning?
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What does Job 20:8 mean?
The wicked man will vanish like a dream, chased away like a vision of the night.