🌪️WEB · Job 20:4

What does Job 20:4 mean?

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

— Job 20:4 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

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

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

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

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

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

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yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

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