Holy Scripture
Job 20:4
A church father on this verse
“In this passage Zophar speaks impudently and seriously insults Job. By scorning him, as the other two friends had already done, Zophar also defamed him for the following reason. After the beginning, after human beings came into existence, they felt "joy" and happiness in the fall "of the impious" and the "destruction…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Hast thou not known these things of old, From the time that man was set upon the earth?
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2I did not suppose that thou wouldest answer thus: Neither do ye understand more than I.
3I will hear my shameful reproach; And the spirit of my understanding answers me.
— Job 20:4 —
5But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, And the joy of transgressors is destruction:
6Although his gifts should go up to heaven, And his sacrifice reach the clouds.