Job 20:4 CPDV

²  In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.

³  The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.

⁴  This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:

⁵  that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.

⁶  If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,