Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset!

3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply.

4 Don’t you know that ever since antiquity, from the time a human was placed on earth,

5 the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?

6 Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,

7 he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, “Where is he? ”

8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him.