Job 20:5
“That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment?”
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Job 20:5 Context
3I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere. 4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth, 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds: 7Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?
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That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
- King James Version
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless momentary?
- New American Standard Version (1995)