Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:

2 “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, || And because of my sensations in me.

3 I hear the discipline of my shame, || And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer:

4 Have you known this from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, || And the joy of the profane for a moment,

6 Though his excellence goes up to the heavens, || He strikes his head against a cloud—

7 He perishes as his own dung forever, || His beholders say, Where [is] he?

8 He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

9 The eye has not seen him, and does not add. And his place does not behold him again.