Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,

2 “Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond, Even because of my haste within me.

3 I listened to the discipline which dishonors me, And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

4 Do you know this from of old, From the establishment of man on earth,

5 That the shouts of joy of the wicked are short, And the gladness of the godless momentary?

6 Though his loftiness goes up to the heavens, And his head touches the clouds,

7 He perishes forever like his refuse; Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

8 He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him; Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

9 The eye which saw him sees him no longer, And his place no longer beholds him.