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


In Context

2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

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

6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man 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?