Job 20:4-11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
4 Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time man 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 bones may be full of youthful vigor,
but will lie down with him in the grave.(G)
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