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.
Job 20:5 - New Revised Standard Version that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless is but for a moment? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment? Common English Bible that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless, brief? Catholic Public Domain Version that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. |
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.
And ten young men, Joab's armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him, and killed him.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?
so that the godless should not reign, or those who ensnare the people.
See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for their place, they will not be there.
“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.
All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor's work, will become a cause for pride.