Job 20:3-5

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

⁴ Do you not know from of old, since the time that man was placed on the earth,

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless and defiled is but for a moment?^(A)