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Read Full Chapter (Job 20) Job 20:4-5 KJV
"Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?"
Job 20:4-5 in Context (Verses 1–8 KJV)
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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.*
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
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That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?*
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;*
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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.