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Even though in his pride he towers to the sky
    and his head touches the clouds,
he is destined to perish forever like his own dung,[a]
    and those who used to see him will ask:
    ‘Where is he?’
He will fade away like a dream and never be found again;
    he will vanish like a vision of the night.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 20:7 Dung: a symbol of everything that is ephemeral and without value (see 1 Ki 14:10).