Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 “I must reply because I am greatly disturbed.

3 I’ve had to endure your insults, but now my spirit prompts me to reply.

4 “Don’t you realize that from the beginning of time, ever since people were first placed on the earth,

5 the triumph of the wicked has been short lived and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?

6 Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens and their heads touch the clouds,

7 yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. Those who knew them will ask, ‘Where are they?’

8 They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night.

9 Those who once saw them will see them no more. Their families will never see them again.