Job 20:4-5

4 “Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind[a] was placed on the earth,
5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Cross References 4

  • 1. Deuteronomy 4:32; S Deuteronomy 32:7
  • 2. Psalms 94:3
  • 3. S Job 8:13
  • 4. S Job 8:12; Psalms 37:35-36; Psalms 73:19

Footnotes 1

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