Job 20:4
Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
In Context
3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Cross References
Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.
Psalms 115:16The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.
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 →