🌪️WEB · Job 20:5
What does Job 20:5 mean?
"that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?"
— Job 20:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
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