Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

2 “So my anxious thoughts make me answer, because of my urgency within me.

3 The rebuke of my shaming I have heard, and a spirit from my understanding answers for me.

4 This do you know from long ago, from the placing of man upon the earth,

5 that the triumph of the wicked is brief, and the rejoicing of the godless is for a moment?

6 Though his loftiness should go up to the heavens, and his head should touch to the clouds,

7 like his dung, forever he will perish; those having seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 Like a dream he will fly away and they will not find him; indeed he will be made to wander like a vision of the night.

9 The eye that saw him will not continue, and his place will not behold him again.