Job 20:4-9

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RSV

Do you not know this from of old,
since man was placed upon earth,
that the exulting of the wicked is short,
and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,
7 he will perish for ever like his own dung;
those who have seen him will say, `Where is he?'
He will fly away like a dream, and not be found;
he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
The eye which saw him will see him no more,
nor will his place any more behold him.


Verse 4: "earth" here is ארץ, aretz — but is a word-play on "adam" still hinted at?

Verse 7: See Genesis 2:7 and notes there citing this verse regarding Adam/Humankind's affinity with the earth, remembering "adam" the common noun and the "man of dust".