A moment in scripture
Job 20:6
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
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The surrounding passage
- Job 20:4
Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Job 20:7
Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.