Job 20:7

7 aun así, ellos desaparecerán para siempre
y serán desechados como su propio estiércol.
Sus conocidos preguntarán:
“¿Dónde están?”.

Job 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Job 20:7

[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung
Not only in this world, but in the world to come, both in his outward substance here, and in his body in the grave, and in his soul to all eternity, and that in the most shameful and disgraceful manner; he shall perish in his own corruption, and like his own dung inevitably, which is never returned to its place again: dead bodies were reckoned by the ancients as dung, and the carcasses of men are rather to be cast out than dung {i}; and the Arabians used, to bury in dunghills even their kings ^F11; to which some ^F12 think the allusion is:

they which have seen him shall say, where [is] he?
such as formerly gazed at him, in his prosperity, with wonder and amazement at his grandeur and greatness, now being removed from his outward splendour, or from the world, by death, ask where he is, not being able to see him in his former lustre, nor in the land of the living; see ( Job 14:10 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Heraclitus apud Strabo. Geograph. l. 16. p. 539.
F11 Strabo, ib.
F12 Pineda in loc.

Job 20:7 In-Context

5 el triunfo de los malos ha durado poco
y la alegría de los que viven sin Dios ha sido pasajera?

6 Aunque el orgullo de los incrédulos llegue hasta los cielos
y toquen las nubes con la cabeza,

7 aun así, ellos desaparecerán para siempre
y serán desechados como su propio estiércol.
Sus conocidos preguntarán:
“¿Dónde están?”.

8 Se desvanecerán como un sueño y nadie los encontrará;
desaparecerán como una visión nocturna.

9 Quienes alguna vez los vieron, no los verán más;
sus familias nunca volverán a verlos.