Job 20:8
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As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

fly away

Psalm 73:20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Psalm 18:10 And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew; he flew upon the wings of the winds.

Psalm 90:5 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Isaiah 29:7,8 And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it. . . .

Context
Zophar: Destruction Awaits the Wicked
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he? 8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.…
Cross References
Job 18:11
Fears shall terrify him on every side, and shall entangle his feet.

Job 18:18
He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 27:20
Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

Job 27:21
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

Job 27:23
He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

Psalm 73:20
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

Psalm 90:5
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Isaiah 29:7
And the multitude of all nations that have fought against Ariel, shall be as the dream of a vision by night, and all that have fought, and besieged and prevailed against it.

Daniel 11:19
And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.

Lexicon
He will fly away
יָ֭עוּף (yā·‘ūp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5774: To fly, to faint

like a dream,
כַּחֲל֣וֹם (ka·ḥă·lō·wm)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2472: A dream

never
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

to be found;
יִמְצָא֑וּהוּ (yim·ṣā·’ū·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

he will be chased away
וְ֝יֻדַּ֗ד (wə·yud·daḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away

like a vision
כְּחֶזְי֥וֹן (kə·ḥez·yō·wn)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2384: A revelation, dream

in the night.
לָֽיְלָה׃ (lā·yə·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity


Additional Translations
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yes, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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

Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.

He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

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

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

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

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