Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

2 “Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me answer, Because of the uneasiness that is within me.

3 “I have heard the reproof which insults me, But the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

4 “Do you not know this from the old days, Since the time that man was placed on the earth,

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless is only for a moment?

6 “Though his pride reaches the heavens And his head touches the clouds,

7 Yet he perishes forever like his own refuse; Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 “He flies away like a dream and cannot be found; Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

9 “The eye which saw him sees him no longer, Neither does his [accustomed] place behold him any longer.