Job 20:4-6

New International Reader's Version

⁴ “I’m sure you must know how things have always been.
    They’ve been that way
    ever since human beings were placed on this earth.
⁵ Those who are evil are happy for only a short time.
    The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.
⁶ Their pride might reach all the way up to the heavens.
    Their heads might touch the clouds.