Job 20:6
If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
In Context
5that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Daniel 4:11The tree was great, and strong: and the height thereof reached unto heaven: the sight thereof was even to the ends of all the earth.
Amos 9:2Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Obadiah 1:4Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
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 →