- 1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,
- 2. Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.
- 3. I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
- 4. Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,
- 5. That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?
- 6. Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,
- 7. Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?
- 8. He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,
- 9. So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.
- 10. His children shall flatter the poore, & his hands shall restore his substance.
- 11. His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust.
- 12. When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,
- 13. And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,
- 14. Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.
- 15. He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.
- 16. He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.
- 17. He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.
- 18. He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more.
- 19. For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.
- 20. Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of that which he desired.
- 21. There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.
- 22. When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.
- 23. He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.
- 24. He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.
- 25. The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
- 26. All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.
- 27. The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.
- 28. The increase of his house shal go away: it shal flow away in the day of his wrath.
- 29. This is the portion of the wicked man fro God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his wordes.
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