Job 20:5
wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a ◄moment/very short time► [HYP]?
Translation for Translators
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
4“Do you not know that from long ago, ever since people were first put on the earth,
Cross References
Judges 16:21So the Philistine men seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they took him to Gaza. There they put him in prison and bound him with bronze chains. They made him turn a millstone to grind grain every day.
2 Samuel 18:15Then ten young men who carried weapons for Joab surrounded Absalom and finished killing him.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for hanging Mordecai! And then ◄the king’s anger cooled off/the king was no longer so angry►.
Job 8:12If they do not have enough water, while they are still blossoming, they wither more quickly than other plants wither.
Job 15:29But they will not remain rich very long; Everything that they own will be taken from them; their possessions will all disappear.
Job 21:28You say, ‘What happened to the tents in which wicked people were living? The houses of evil rulers have been destroyed!’
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 →