Job 20:1-13 ▼

1 And the Naainathite will answer and say,

2 For this my thoughts will turn back, and because of my haste in me.

3 I shall hear the instruction of my shame, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.

4 Thou knewest this from everlasting when man was set upon the earth:

5 For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment.

6 If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud;

7 As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?

8 As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night.

9 The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him.

10 The weak shall break his sons, and his hands shall turn back his wealth.

11 His bones were full of his youth, and shall lie down with him in the dust.

12 If evil shall be sweet in his mouth he will cover it under his tongue;

13 He will spare over it, and forsake it not, and keep it back in the midst of his palate: