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Job 20:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; or, the eye which scanned him. The verb used ( 漏寧??囹?斂) is a rare one, occurring only here, in Job 28:7, and in So Job 1:6. In the former passage it is used of a falcon, in the latter of the sun.

Neither shall his place any more behold him (comp. Psalms 103:16, "The place thereof shall know it no more").

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