Job 20:5, 21:11-13, Psa 73:18-20, Isa 21:4, 47:8-9, Luk 12:19-20 | ESV | STEP | that the exulting of the wicked is short , and the joy of the godless but for a moment ?

o[See ver. 7 above]

p Zeph. 2:15

q[ch. 45:6, 18; Jer. 50:29]

r Lam. 1:1; [Rev. 18:7]

s[ch. 51:19]

t[Jer. 50:31]

u[ver. 12, 13; Nah. 3:4]

v[Prov. 27:1; James 4:13-15]

w Eccles. 2:24; 11:9; 1 Cor. 15:32; [ch. 15:23]

x Jer. 17:11; [Matt. 16:26]

y[See ver. 19 above]

z Job 27:8

aa Ps. 39:6; [Job 27:17-22; Eccles. 2:18, 21]

Job 20:5

5 ^athat the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 21:11-13

11 They send out their ^blittle boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
12 They sing to ^cthe tambourine and ^dthe lyre
and rejoice to the sound of ^ethe pipe.
13 They ^fspend their days in prosperity,
and in ^gpeace they go down to ^hSheol.

Psalms 73:18-20

18 Truly you set them in ⁱslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ^jin a moment,
swept away utterly by ^kterrors!
20 Like ^la dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ^myou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

Isaiah 21:4

4 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me;
ⁿthe twilight I longed for
has been turned for me into trembling.

Isaiah 47:8-9

8 Now therefore hear this, ^oyou lover of pleasures,
^pwho sit securely,
who say in your heart,
^q“I am, and there is no one besides me;
^rI shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”:
9 ^sThese two things shall come to you
in a moment, ^tin one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
shall come upon you in full measure,
^uin spite of your many sorceries
and the great power of your enchantments.

Luke 12:19-20

19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up ^vfor many years; relax, ^weat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ^x‘Fool! ^yThis night ^zyour soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, ^aawhose will they be?’