Job 20:1-9 ▼

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.