Bible verse
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Job 20:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 20.
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.
3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his place will no longer behold him.
KJV
That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
ASV
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
ERV
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
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