Christian Standard Bible
Job 20:5
5the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
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 makes me reply. 4Don’t you know that ever since antiquity, from the time a human was placed on earth, the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? 6Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, 7he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, “Where is he?”
Read all of Job 20Job 20:5 word by word
כִּ֤י רִנְנַ֣ת רְ֭שָׁעִים מִקָּר֑וֹב וְשִׂמְחַ֖ת חָנֵ֣ף עֲדֵי־רָֽגַע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 20:5
- Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
- Job 15:29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not increase in the land.
- Job 18:5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 27:13This is a wicked man’s lot from God, the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said: “I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire will be gratified at their expense. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.”
- Judges 16:21The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.
- Esther 5:11Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.
- Esther 7:10They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen a wicked, violent person well-rooted, like a flourishing native tree.
- Psalms 73:18Indeed, you put them in slippery places; you make them fall into ruin.
- Acts 12:22The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”
- Job 8:19Surely this is the joy of his way of life; yet others will sprout from the dust.
- Job 27:8For what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
- Matthew 13:20And the one sown on rocky ground — this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.
- Galatians 6:4Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with 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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