4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth, 5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? 6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
Job 20:4–6
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2 Esdras 11:42–44
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Job 22:12–14
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Psalms 56:6–8
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Job 21:21–23
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2 Esdras 11:15–17
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2 Baruch 21:18–20
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1 Clement 39:1–3
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