Scripture Context

Job 20:0 - Job 20:10

Job 20
Intro: Zophar reproacheth the wicked.

1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night,

9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place anymore behold him.

10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.