Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

4 Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.