King James Version

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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וְעֵינֵ֥יveeyneand eye , , -sightעַיִןconjunction, noun, common, both genders, dual, construct — “and eye , , -sight”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him…רְשָׁעִ֗יםreshaimguiltyרָשָׁעadjective, adjective, masculine, plural, absolute — “guilty”, the ordinary formH7563morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person[phrase] condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָהtikhleynahceaseכָּלָהverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, plural — “cease”, an unfinished actionH3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)accomplish, cease, consume (away), determine, destroy (utterly), be (when... were) done, (be an) end (of), expire, (cause to) fail, faint, finish, fulfil, [idiom] fully, [idiom] have, leave (off), long, bring to pass, wholly reap, make cle…וּ֭מָנוֹסumanosand escapeמָנוֹסconjunction, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “and escape”, the ordinary formH4498a retreat (literally or figuratively); abstractly, a fleeing[idiom] apace, escape, way to flee, flight, refuge.אָבַ֣דavaddestroyאָבַדverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “destroy”, a completed actionH6properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)break, destroy(-uction), [phrase] not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, [idiom] and surely, take, be undone, [idiom] utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.מִנְהֶ֑םminhemfromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗םvetiqvatamand expectationתִּקְוָהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and expectation”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH8615literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancyexpectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.מַֽפַּחmapachgiving upמַפָּחnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct — “giving up”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4646a breathing out (of life), i.e. expiringgiving up.נָֽפֶשׁnafeshcreatureנֶפֶשׁnoun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “creature”, the ordinary formH5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally,…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.

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American Standard Version (1901)

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

Young’s Literal Translation

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope [is] a breathing out of soul!

World English Bible

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Darby Translation

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.

Douay-Rheims

But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

But safety shall fail them; for their hope is destruction, and the eyes of the ungodly shall waste away.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Σωτηρία δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπολείψει· ἡ γὰρ ἐλπὶς αὐτῶν ἀπώλεια, ὀφθαλμοὶ δὲ ἀσεβῶν τακήσονται.