Job 20:4-11

Christian Standard Bible

⁴ Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time a human was placed on earth,
⁵ the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?^(A)
6 Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,^(B)
7 he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know^[a] him will ask, “Where is he?” ^(C)
8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found;
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.^(D)
9 The eye that saw him will see him no more,^(E)
and his household will no longer see him.^(F)
10 His children will beg from^[b] the poor,
for his own hands must give back his wealth.
¹¹ His frame may be full of youthful vigor,
but it will lie down with him in dust.^(G)