- 1. ¶ THEN Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
- 2. Therefore my discipline has caused me to discern, and for my help it has remained with me.
- 3. I will make you hear the instruction of my discipline, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.
- 4. This I know from of old, since man was created upon the earth,
- 5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment.
- 6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach to the clouds,
- 7. Yet he shall perish for ever like a whirlwind; those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- 8. He shall fly away like a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
- 9. The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall they see his place again.
- 10. ¶ His children shall be crushed with poverty, and he shall stretch out his hands toward them.
- 11. His bones are full of marrow, but they shall lie down with him in the dust.
- 12. Though his wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide deceit under his tongue,
- 13. Though he spare it and forsake it not, but keep it still in his mouth;
- 14. Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- 15. The riches which he had swallowed down, he shall vomit up out of his belly; and God shall destroy him.
- 16. He shall suck the poison of asps; the tongue of an adder shall slay him.
- 17. He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
- 18. That which he had labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; that which he had acquired by extortion he shall not enjoy;
- 19. Because he has thought to forsake the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.
- 20. Because he knew no justice himself, he shall not be spared by his covetousness.
- 21. There shall none of his posterity be spared; therefore his good will not be remembered.
- 22. With the measure with which he had measured, he shall be recompensed; the hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
- 23. ¶ May his posterity go to destruction, may God cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and deluge him while he wars against him.
- 24. For although he had escaped because of the breastplate of iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him through.
- 25. It is drawn, and it brings forth his inward parts; and the skin of his gall shall be pierced; terror shall be upon him continually.
- 26. All darkness is kept in store for his posterity; a blazing fire shall consume him; and the one who is left in his tent shall be destroyed.
- 27. The heaven shall reveal his sins; and the earth avenge itself upon him.
- 28. The foundations of his house shall be left bare and he shall be scourged in the day of his wrath.
- 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him from the Highest.
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