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Read Full Chapter (Job 20) Job 20:5-8 KJV
"That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
Job 20:5-8 in Context (Verses 2–11 KJV)
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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.
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The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.*
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His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.