Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:

2 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.

3 I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

4 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,

5 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

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

8 He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

9 The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.