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Job 20:3-13

3 You correct me and I am insulted, but I understand how to answer you.

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

4 "You know how it has been for a long time, ever since people were first put on the earth.

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

5 The happiness of evil people is brief, and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.

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

6 Their pride may be as high as the heavens, and their heads may touch 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 gone forever, like their own dung. People who knew them will say, 'Where are they?'

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

8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found again; they will be chased away like a vision in the night.

8 Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night.

9 Those who saw them will not see them again; the places where they lived will see them no more.

9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.

10 Their children will have to pay back the poor, and they will have to give up their wealth.

10 His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.

11 They had the strength of their youth in their bones, but it will lie with them in the dust of death.

11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust.

12 "Evil may taste sweet in their mouths, and they may hide it under their tongues.

12 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

13 They cannot stand to let go of it; they keep it in their mouths.

13 though he cannot bear to let it go and lets it linger in his mouth,