Job 20:4
Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
In Context
3I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:
5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,
Cross References
Genesis 9:1And God blesses Noah and his sons, and says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;
Job 15:10Both the gray-headed || And the very aged [are] among us—Greater than your father [in] days.
Psalms 115:16The heavens—the heavens [are] YHWH’s, || And He has given the earth to sons of men;
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 →