Catholic Public Domain Version
"This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth: "
— Job 20:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,”
“Knowest thou notthis of old time, Since man was placed upon earth, ”
“Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,”
““Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,”
“This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,”
“Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,”
“Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,”
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”