Job 20:4

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Job 20:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

3 I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

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,

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Job 8:8

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 15:10

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.

Job 32:7

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

Genesis 9:1

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:2

The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

Genesis 9:3

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

Psalms 115:16

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.