Job 20:1-13 ▼

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:

2 “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me.

3 I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:

4 Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,

6 Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud—

7 He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?

8 He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

9 The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.

10 His sons oppress the poor, || And his hands give back his wealth.

11 His bones have been full of his youth, and it lies down with him on the dust.

12 Though he sweetens evil in his mouth, hides it under his tongue,

13 has pity on it, and does not forsake it, and keeps it back in the midst of his palate,