4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
1 Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
2 Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
3 The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
5 that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
20:4Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:4"Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth,
20:4Knowest thou not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,
20:4Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:4Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
20:4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
20:4Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
20:4This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?
20:4Know you not this of old, since man was placed on earth,