Holy Scripture
Job 15:20
A church father on this verse
“"All the life of the ungodly," he says, "is spent in anguish," and when they experience peace, their conscience will know this anguish. "The years granted to the oppressors," who are unjust, "are numbered," he says, because the tyrants are ephemeral.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, And the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
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18Things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
19To them alone the earth was given, And no stranger came upon them.
— Job 15:20 —
21And his terror is in his ears: Just when he seems to be at peace, His overthrow will come.
22Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, For he has been already made over to the power of the sword.