Job 20:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 20:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:35-36
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
Job 18:5-6
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. …
Job 8:12-13
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. …
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Acts 12:22-23
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Amusements and Worldly Pleasures Care Carnal Mindedness Conceit Consistency Covetousness Dead (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (Job 20:2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer. He takes no notice of what Job had said to move their pity, or to evidence his own…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. the hypocrite--literally, “the ungodly” (Psa 37:35, 36).