Ayub 20:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Belumkah engkau mengetahui semuanya itu sejak dahulu kala, sejak manusia ditempatkan di bumi,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Belumkah engkau mengetahui semuanya itu sejak dahulu kala, sejak manusia ditempatkan di bumi,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tiadakah engkau tahu bahwa dari dahulukala, dari pada masa manusia ditaruh di atas bumi,

Contextual Overview

¹ Then aunswered Sophar the Naamathite, and saide: ² For the same cause do my thoughtes compell me to aunswere, and therefore, make haste. ³ I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere. ⁴ Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth, ⁵ That the gladnesse of the vngodlie hath ben short, and that the ioy of hypocrites continued but the twinckling of an eye? ⁶ Though he be magnified vp to the heauen, so that his head reacheth vnto the cloudes: ⁷ Yet at a turne he perisheth for euer, insomuch that they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night. ⁹ So that the eye which sawe him before, shal haue no more sight of him, and his place shall know him no more.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou not: Job 8:8, Job 8:9, Job 15:10, Job 32:7

man: Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1-3, Psalms 115:16

Reciprocal: John 9:32 - the world

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lorde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorrhe brymstone and fire, from the Lorde out of heauen:

Genesis 20:6
And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her.

Genesis 20:17
And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe.

2 Samuel 4:11
Howe much more when wicked men haue slayne a righteous person in his owne house and vpon his bed? Shal I not nowe therfore require his blood of your hande, & take you from the earth?

1 Chronicles 21:17
And Dauid sayde vnto God: Is it not I that commaunded the people to be numbred? It is I that haue sinned and done euyll in deede: and what haue these sheepe done? Let thyne hande O Lorde my God be on me, and on my fathers house: but not on thy people, that they shoulde be punished.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Knowest thou [not] this of old,.... Or "from eternity" g, from the beginning of time, ever since the world was; as if he should say, if you are the knowing man you pretend to be, you must know this I am about to observe; and if you do not know it, you must be an ignorant man, since it is an ancient truth, confirmed by all experience from the creation; not that Job could know it so early, he was not the first man that was born, nor was he made before the hills, but was of yesterday, and comparatively knew nothing; but the sense is, that this about to be delivered was an old established maxim, of which there had been numerous instances,

since man, or "Adam",

was placed upon earth; referring to the putting of Adam in Eden to dress the garden, and keep it; and every man, ever since, is placed on earth by the ordination, and according to the will of God, where and for purposes he pleases: the instances Zophar might have in view are perhaps the expulsion of our first parents out of paradise, the vagabond state of Cain, the destruction of the old world by a flood, and of Sodom and Gomorrah by fire from heaven; which show that God, sooner or later, gives manifest tokens of his displeasure at sin and sinners, by his punishment of them for it. What he means is as follows.

g מני עד "ab aeterno", Junius & Tremellius, Drusius, Codurcus, Schmidt, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Knowest thou not this of old - That is, dost thou not know that this has always happened from the beginning of the world, or that this is the invariable course of events. His purpose is to show that it was the settled arrangement of Providence that the wicked would be overtaken with signal calamity. It was “so” settled that Job ought not to be surprised that it had occurred in “his” case. Zophar goes on to show that though a wicked man might rise high in honor, and obtain great wealth, yet that the fall would certainly come, and he would sink to a depth of degradation corresponding to the former prosperity.

Since man was placed upon earth - Since the creation; that is, it has always been so.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 20:4. Knowest thou not this of old — This is a maxim as ancient as the world; it began with the first man: A wicked man shall triumph but a short time; God will destroy the proud doer.

Since man was placed upon earth — Literally, since ADAM was placed on the earth; that is, since the fall, wickedness and hypocrisy have existed; but they have never triumphed long. Thou hast lately been expressing confidence in reference to a general judgment; but such is thy character, that thou hast little reason to anticipate with any joy the decisions of that day.