Parallel Bible results for "job 20:1-7"

Job 20:1-7

1 Job, you upset me.

1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:

2 Now I'm impatient to answer.

2 “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.

3 What you have said is an insult, but I know how to reply to you.

3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.

4 Surely you know that from ancient times, when we humans were first placed on earth,

4 “Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since mankind was placed on the earth,

5 no wicked people have been happy for long.

5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

6 They may grow great, towering to the sky, so great that their heads reach the clouds,

6 Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

7 but they will be blown away like dust. Those who used to know them will wonder where they have gone.

7 he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’