Job 20:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless and defiled is but for a moment? [Ps. 37:35, 36.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Common English Bible

⁵ that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless, brief?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

Job 20:5 Cross References

James 4:16

As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

Galatians 6:4

All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor’s work, will become a cause for pride.

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.

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Job 8:19

See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.

Job 5:3

I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Job 34:30

so that the godless should not reign or those who ensnare the people.

Psalm 94:3

O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

2 Samuel 18:14

Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Psalm 37:10

Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.

Psalm 94:4

They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.