King James Version (KJV)
Job 20:5
“That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?”
Verse in context — Job 20
3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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] for a moment?
6
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7
[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
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