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Job 20:5
5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for 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 hear a reproof putting me to shame; and [my] spirit answereth me by mine understanding. 4Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth, The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, 7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, 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 myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 15:29He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
- Job 18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 27:13This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: —
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.
- Judges 16:21And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house.
- Esther 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
- Esther 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
- Psalms 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:
- Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
- Acts 12:22And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.
- Job 8:19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.
- Job 27:8For what is the hope of the ungodly, when [God] cutteth him off, when God taketh away his soul?
- Matthew 7:21Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
- Matthew 13:20But he that is sown on the rocky places — this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,
- Galatians 6:4but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.
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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