Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar from Naamath replied:

2 |Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me.

3 Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand.|

4 |Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth?

5 The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.

6 Though he grow as tall as the sky, or though his head touches the clouds,

7 he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, 'Where is he?'

8 He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision.|

9 |An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him.