Berean Standard Bible
Job 20:5
5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Job 20:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- New International Version (NIV)that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
- English Standard Version (ESV)that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- New King James Version (NKJV)That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
Context of Job 20:5
3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply. 4Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth, the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? 6Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, 7he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
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כִּ֤י רִנְנַ֣ת רְ֭שָׁעִים מִקָּר֑וֹב וְשִׂמְחַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף עֲדֵי־רָֽגַע׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 20:5
- Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- Job 15:29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 27:13This is the wicked man’s portion from God— the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- Judges 16:21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
- Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
- Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Acts 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- Job 8:19Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Matthew 13:20The seed sown on rocky ground is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
- Galatians 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
Commentaries on Job 20:5
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5That the triumphing - The word “triumphing” here (רננה renânâh ),” shouting, rejoicing” - such a shouting as people make after a victory, or such as occurred at the close of harvesting. Here it means that the occasion which the wicked had for rejoicing would be brief. It would be but for a moment, and he then would be overwhelmed with calamity or cut off by death. Short - Margin, as in Hebrew “from near.” That is, it would be soon over. And the joy of…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. the hypocrite--literally, "the ungodly" (Psa 37:35, 36).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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