Job 20:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

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  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant, 36 And he passeth away, and lo, he is not, And I seek him, and he is not found!
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. 19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors. 20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
  • Matt 7:21 : 21 `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
  • Matt 13:20-21 : 20 `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it, 21 and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled.
  • Acts 12:22-23 : 22 and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;' 23 and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.
  • Gal 6:4 : 4 and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,
  • Jas 4:16 : 16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
  • Exod 15:9-9 : 9 The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: -- 10 Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.
  • Judg 16:21-30 : 21 And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house. 22 And the hair of his head beginneth to shoot up, when he hath been shaven, 23 and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, `Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.' 24 And the people see him, and praise their god, for they said, `Our god hath given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded.' 25 And it cometh to pass, when their heart `is' glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars. 26 And Samson saith unto the young man who is keeping hold on his hand, `Let me alone, and let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, and I lean upon them.' 27 And the house hath been full of men and of women, and thither `are' all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof `are' about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson. 28 And Samson calleth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this time, O God; and I am avenged -- vengeance at once -- because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.' 29 And Samson turneth aside `to' the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, `to' the one with his right hand, and one with his left; 30 and Samson saith, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who `are' in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.
  • Esth 5:11-12 : 11 and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king. 12 And Haman saith, `Yea, Esther the queen brought none in with the king, unto the feast that she made, except myself, and also for to-morrow I am called to her, with the king,
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
  • Job 5:3 : 3 I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
  • Job 8:12-13 : 12 While it `is' in its budding -- uncropt, Even before any herb it withereth. 13 So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
  • Job 8:19 : 19 Lo, this `is' the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
  • Job 15:29-34 : 29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. 30 He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! 31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. 32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. 34 For the company of the profane `is' gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
  • Job 18:5-6 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire. 6 The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what `is' the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?
  • Job 27:13-23 : 13 This `is' the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive. 14 If his sons multiply -- for them `is' a sword. And his offspring `are' not satisfied `with' bread. 15 His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep. 16 If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing, 17 He prepareth -- and the righteous putteth `it' on, And the silver the innocent doth apportion. 18 He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made. 19 Rich he lieth down, and he is not gathered, His eyes he hath opened, and he is not. 20 Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind. 21 Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place, 22 And it casteth at him, and doth not spare, From its hand he diligently fleeth. 23 It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

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