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1 - Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

2 - “Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

3 - I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

4 - Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

5 - that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

6 - Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

7 - yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

8 - He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

9 - The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

10 - His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

11 - His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.

12 - “Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

13 - though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

14 - yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

15 - He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

16 - He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

17 - He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.

18 - That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

19 - For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

20 - “Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

21 - There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

22 - In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

23 - When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

24 - He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

25 - He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

26 - All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

27 - The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

28 - The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

29 - This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”