Job 20:5
that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
In Context
4This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
6If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
Cross References
Judges 16:21And when the Philistines had seized him, they immediately plucked out his eyes. And they led him, bound in chains, to Gaza. And enclosing him in a prison, they made him work a millstone.
2 Samuel 18:15ten young men, armor bearers of Joab, ran up, and striking him, they killed him.
Esther 7:10And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger was quieted.
Job 8:12When it is still in flower, and has not been pulled up by hand, it withers before all other plants.
Job 15:29He will not be enriched, nor will his basic necessities endure, nor will he establish his root in the earth.
Job 21:28For you say, “Where is the house of the ruler, and where are the tabernacles of the impious?”
Matthew Henry on Job 20:2-10
Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto… Read the whole commentary →