Job 8:19
Good News Translation
Yes, that's all the joy evil people have; others now come and take their places.

New Revised Standard Version
See, these are their happy ways, and out of the earth still others will spring.

Contemporary English Version
their life slips away, and other plants grow there.

New American Bible
There he lies rotting beside the road, and out of the soil another sprouts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.

this is the joy

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Matthew 13:20,21 And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately receiveth it with joy. . . .

out of the earth

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

Psalm 75:7 For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

Psalm 113:7 Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:

Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
18If one swallow him up out of his place, he shall deny him, and shall say: I know thee not. 19For this is the joy of his way, that others may spring again out of the earth.20God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:…
Cross References
Job 20:5
That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Job 8:20
God will not cast away the simple, nor reach out his hand to the evil doer:

Job 8:18
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