Job 20:5

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Summary

Job 20:5

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

The triumphing

The joy

General references

Genesis 34:28

Job 27:8

Psalm 37:2

Bible References

The triumphing

I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty: --

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading like a green tree in its native soil:

Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

And the people cried out, A god's voice and not a man's.

The joy

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

But he that is sown on the rocky places this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

General references

Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what was in the city, and what was in the field they took;

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.