Job 20:6
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
In Context
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'
Cross References
Genesis 11:4And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
Daniel 4:11(4-8) The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
Amos 9:2Though they dig into the nether-world, thence shall My hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
Obadiah 1:4Though thou make thy nest as high as the eagle, and though thou set it among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, 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 →