Job 20:5

20:5 that the elation of the wicked is brief, ¹ 

the joy of the godless ²  lasts but a moment. ³ 

Matthew 13:20-21

13:20 The ⁴  seed sown on rocky ground ⁵  is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. 13:21 But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ⁶  when ⁷  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

[20:5]  ¹ tn The expression in the text is “quite near.” This indicates that it is easily attained, and that its end is near.

[20:5]  ² tn For the discussion of חָנֵף (khanef, “godless”) see Job 8:13.

[20:5]  ³ tn The phrase is “until a moment,” meaning it is short-lived. But see J. Barr, “Hebrew ’ad, especially at Job 1:18 and Neh 7:3,” JSS 27 (1982): 177-88.

[13:20]  ⁴ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[13:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “The one sown on rocky ground, this is the one.” The next two statements like this one have this same syntactical structure.

[13:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “is temporary.”

[13:21]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.