Job 20:7 - Exposition

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung . Some understand "his own dung-heap," regarding the "ashes" of Job 2:8 as, in reality, a heap of refuse of all kinds; but it is simpler to suppose a plainer and more vulgar taunt. They which have seen him shall say, Where is he? i.e. "Whither hath he gone? What is become of him?" (comp. Isaiah 37:36 ).