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1 - And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

2 - Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me.

3 - The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer:

4 - This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

5 - That the singing of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

6 - Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike--

7 - As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where <FI>is<Fi> he?'

8 - As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

9 - The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

10 - His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth.

11 - His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.

12 - Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

13 - Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate,

14 - His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps <FI>is<Fi> in his heart.

15 - Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

16 - Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

17 - He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.

18 - He is giving back <FI>what<Fi> he laboured for, And doth not consume <FI>it<Fi> ; As a bulwark <FI>is<Fi> his exchange, and he exults not.

19 - For he oppressed--he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

20 - For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

21 - There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

22 - In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

23 - It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.

24 - He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass.

25 - One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him <FI>are<Fi> terrors.

26 - All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.

27 - Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him.

28 - Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

29 - This <FI>is<Fi> the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.