Job 20
Reading Job chapter 20 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
6 Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
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