Job 20:5

God's Word

the triumph of the wicked is short-lived, and the joy of the godless person lasts only a moment?

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:14

Then Joab said, “I shouldn’t waste time with you like this.” He took three sharp sticks and plunged them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the tree.

2 Samuel 18:15

Then ten of Joab’s armorbearers surrounded Absalom, attacked him, and killed him.

Esther 7:10

So servants hung Haman’s ⌞dead body⌟ on the very pole he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king got over his raging anger.

Job 21:28

because you ask, ‘Where is the house of the influential person? Where is the tent where wicked people live?’

Job 27:8

After all, what hope does the godless person have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 34:30

⌞He does this⌟ so that godless people cannot rule and so that they cannot trap people.

Job 5:3

I have seen a stubborn fool take root, but I quickly cursed his house.

Job 8:19

That is its joy in this life, and others sprout from the same ground to ⌞take its place⌟.

Psalm 37:10

In a little while a wicked person will vanish. Then you can carefully examine where he was, but there will be no trace of him.

Psalm 94:3

How long, O Lord, will wicked people triumph? How long?

Psalm 94:4

They ramble. They speak arrogantly. All troublemakers brag about themselves.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who does what my Father in heaven wants.

Galatians 6:4

Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.

James 4:16

However, you brag because you’re arrogant. All such bragging is evil.