A moment in scripture

Job 20:5

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

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  1. Job 20:3

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

  2. Job 20:4

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

  3. Job 20:6

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

  4. Job 20:7

    Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.