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1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying

2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas

3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me

4 This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth

5 that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment

6 If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds

7 in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?

8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare

9 The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him

10 His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him

11 His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust

12 For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue

13 He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat

14 His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him

15 The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out

16 He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him

17 (May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.

18 He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer

19 For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build

20 And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them

21 Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind

22 When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him

23 May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him

24 He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass

25 which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over him

26 All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle

27 The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him

28 The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath

29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord

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