Job 20:4
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth,
- KJV
- Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- WEB
- Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
- ASV
- Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,
- DARBY
- Knowest thou [not] this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- BLB
- This do you know from long ago, from the placing of man upon the earth,
- ÅB
- Vet du da ikke at slik har det vært fra evighet, fra den tid mennesker ble satt på jorden,
- OTB
- Vet du ikke dette fra eldgamle tider,
siden mennesket ble satt på jorden, - B1930
- Vet du da ikke at slik har det vært fra evighet, fra den tid mennesker blev satt på jorden,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Read in contextGenesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Read in contextJob 32:7
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Read in contextPsalms 115:16
The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Read in contextGenesis 9:1–3
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Read in contextJob 8:8–9
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
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