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Job 20:2

Verse 2 of 29. The 20th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

4Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.