Job 7:8
The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
BSB
ASV
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
KJV
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
The eye of man shall not see me. For 'the eye of Man' is the pity of the Redeemer, which softens the hardness of our insensibility, when it looks upon us. Hence, as the Gospel witnesses, it is said, And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord. And he went out, and wept bitterly. But the soul when divested of the flesh 'the eye of Man' doth not henceforth at all regard, in that it never delivers him after death, whom grace doth not restore to pardon before death.
The eye of him who beholds me (present, not past), that is, in the very act of beholding me, seeth me no more. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not--He disappears, even while God is looking upon him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
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Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
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Job 20:9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
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He never returns to his house; his place remembers him no more.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
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So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
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Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
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O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.