“Surely you know how it has been from of old,(A)
    ever since mankind[a] was placed on the earth,
that the mirth of the wicked(B) is brief,
    the joy of the godless(C) lasts but a moment.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:4 Or Adam

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

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

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