Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
World English Bible Classic
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
4Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
Cross References
Judges 16:21The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
2 Samuel 18:15Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.
Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.
Job 8:12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
Job 15:29He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 21:28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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 →