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Ambition: Vanity of Job 20:5–9

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? / Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, / he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

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Ambition: Vanity of Job 24:24

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.

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Ambition: Vanity of Psalm 49:11–20

Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes. / But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish. / This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

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