Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 20:8

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 20:8 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 20:8. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, this verse means that bad people or bad things will disappear quickly, just like a dream or a shadow in the night. It shows that things that aren't good don't last and will go away.

Job 20:8: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Contradiction with Job 19:25-26

While Job 20:8 speaks of disappearance, Job 19:25-26 affirms Job's confidence in seeing God after his body is destroyed.

Job 19:25-26: For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:

Contradiction with John 11:25-26

Job 20:8 suggests a vanishing away, while Jesus in John 11:25-26 promises eternal life, contradicting the concept of disappearing permanently.

John 11:25-26: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Contradiction with Daniel 12:2

In Job 20:8, people vanish like a dream, but Daniel 12:2 speaks of awakening from dust, suggesting a contradiction in final outcomes.

Daniel 12:2: And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame [and] everlasting contempt.

Contradiction with 2 Corinthians 5:1

The vanishing in Job 20:8 contrasts with 2 Corinthians 5:1, which promises an eternal house in heaven after earthly life.

2 Corinthians 5:1: For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Contradiction with Revelation 21:4

Job 20:8 implies fading away, whereas Revelation 21:4 offers a future without death or vanishing.

Revelation 21:4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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