Job 20:1-9 ▼

1 And the Naainathite will answer and say,

2 For this my thoughts will turn back, and because of my haste in me.

3 I shall hear the instruction of my shame, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.

4 Thou knewest this from everlasting when man was set upon the earth:

5 For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment.

6 If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud;

7 As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?

8 As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night.

9 The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him.