Job 20:4-11

Expanded Bible

⁴ “·You [^LDo you not…?] know how it has been ·for a long time [since time immemorial],
    ever since ·people were first put [or he put people] on the earth.
⁵ The ·happiness [luxuriance; enjoyment] of evil people is brief,
    and the joy of the ·wicked [^Lgodless] lasts only a moment.
⁶ ·Their pride may be [^LThey may go] as high as the heavens,
    and their heads may touch the clouds,
⁷ but they will ·be gone [perish] forever, like their own dung.
    People who ·knew [^Lsaw] them will say, ‘Where are they?’
⁸ They will fly away like a dream
    and not be found again;
    they will be ·chased away [put to flight] like a vision in the night.
⁹ ·Those who [^LThe eye that] saw them will not see them again;
    the places where they lived will see them no more.
¹⁰ Their children will ·have to pay back [or run after] the poor,
    and ·they will have to give up [^Ltheir hand will return] their wealth.
¹¹ They had the strength of their youth in their bones,
    but it will lie with them in the dust of death.