“I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Job 20:5 - Tree of Life Version that the triumph 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. |
“I won’t wait for you!” Joab said. So he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
Then ten young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck and finished him off.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s rage subsided.
For you ask, ‘Where is the nobleman’s house and the tent where the wicked lived?’
For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?
I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, you will look at his place, but he will not be there.
They gush out, they speak arrogance— all the evildoers keep boasting.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Rather let each one examine his own work. Then he will have pride in himself alone and not in comparison to anyone else.