Job 20:5

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That the triumphing - The word “triumphing” here ( רננה r e nânâh ),” shouting, rejoicing” - such a shouting as people make after a victo...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 20. Second Speech of Zophar. Zophar helps the return to the wider problem by appearing once more with a strong doctrine as to the shortness of...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

wicked . lawless. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. dung. See note on Isaiah 25:10 .
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 470 AGAINST HYPOCRISY Job 20:4-7 . Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked i...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Knowest thou not, &c.— The latter clause of Job 20:4 might as well have been rendered, Since Adam was placed on the earth. There is no reas...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Hypocrite - literally, the ungodly ( Psalms 37:35-...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zophar's Second Speech Zophar ignores Job's conviction that God will one day establish his innocence, and proceeds to describe the short triumph o...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The triumphing of the wicked is short. — He affirms that the destruction of the wicked is not only certain, but speedy. (Comp. Psalms 103:16 and...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVII. IGNORANT CRITICISM OF LIFE Job 20:1-29 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE great saying that quickens our faith and carries thought into a higher world c...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Triumphing of the Wicked” Job 20:1-29 Zophar is the man who least of all understood Job. The rebuke which Job had just administered, Job...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

With evident haste, Zophar replied. His speech is introduced with an apology for his haste and a confession of his anger. He had heard the reproof, b...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, (5) That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but f...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short ,.... Their outward prosperity and felicity, of which they make their boast, and in which they glory an...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment? Ver. 5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Knowest thou not this Which I am now about to say; of old From the experience of all former ages; since man was placed upon the earth Since th...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE WICKED MAN'S BRIEF TRIUMPH (vv.1-5) Zophar does not even consider the possibility that Job is not wicked, but again strongly condemns the wi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Zophar; Destruction of the Wicked. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is short, Heb. is from near , i.e. from or for a little time; they have not long enjoyed it, and it will shortly vanish. The joy of the hypocrite...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH Produces nothing new; much more outspoken than before. Enlarges on the miseries overtaking the wicked, insinuating that J...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 20:2 . I make haste to answer, for thou reproachest both God and us. Zophar had felt the point of Job's sword, in the preseding discourse; but...
The Biblical Illustrator

That the triumphing of the wicked is short. The triumph of the wicked The words of the text are indisputably true, though misapplied. In the wo...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 20:1-18 Zophar's second speech is even more harsh than his first ( Job 11:1-18 .). He adds coarseness and rudeness to his fo...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar States Why he must Speak
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, that it never extends over a long period of time, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment, that t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:22 ; Acts 12:23 ; Esther 5:11 ; Esther 5:12 ; Esther 7:10 ; Exodus 15:10 ; Exodus 15:9 ; Galatians 6:4 ; James 4:16 ; Job 15:29-34...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 20:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 20:5