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1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for [this] I make haste.
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
4 Know you [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
7 [Yet] he will perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him will say, Where [is] he?
8 He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found: yes, he will be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also [which] saw him will [see him] no more; neither will his place any more behold him.
10 His children will seek to please the poor, and his hands will restore their goods.
11 His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which will lie down with him in the dust.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue;
13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.
15 He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again: God will cast them out of his belly.
16 He will suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue will slay him.
17 He will not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
18 That which he laboured for will he restore, and will not swallow [it] down: according to [his] substance [will] the restitution [be], and he will not rejoice [therein].
19 Because he has oppressed [and] has forsaken the poor; [because] he has violently taken away a house which he builded not;
20 Surely he will not feel quietness in his belly, he will not save of that which he desired.
21 There will none of his meat be left; therefore will no man look for his goods.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he will be in straits: every hand of the wicked will come upon him.
23 [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and will rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
24 He will flee from the iron weapon, [and] the bow of steel will strike him through.
25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword comes out of his gall: terrors [are] upon him.
26 All darkness [will be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown will consume him; it will go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
27 The heaven will reveal his iniquity; and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The increase of his house will depart, [and his goods] will flow away in the day of his wrath.
29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.