5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?


In Context

2 Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

3 I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding.

4 Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,

5 The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

7 Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Job 20:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:5that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:5that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:5That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?