- 1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and saide,
- 2. Therefore doe my thoughts cause mee to answere, and for this I make haste.
- 3. I haue heard the checke of my reproach, and the spirit of my vnderstanding causeth me to answere.
- 4. Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed vpon earth,
- 5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the ioy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- 6. Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauens, and his head reach vnto the clouds:
- 7. Yet he shall perish for euer, like his owne doung: they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is he?
- 8. He shall flie away as a dreame, and shall not be found: yea he shalbe chased away as a vision of the night.
- 9. The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
- 10. His children shall seeke to please the poore, and his hands shall restore their goods.
- 11. His bones are ful of the sinne of his youth, which shall ye downe with him in the dust.
- 12. Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;
- 13. Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil within his mouth:
- 14. Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.
- 15. He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly.
- 16. He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
- 17. Hee shall not see the riuers, the floods, the brookes of hony and butter.
- 18. That which he laboured for, shall he restore, & shall not swallow it downe: according to his substance shall the restitution bee, and hee shall not reioyce therein.
- 19. Because hee hath oppressed, and hath forsaken the poore; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not:
- 20. Surely he shall not feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired.
- 21. There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.
- 22. In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the wicked shall come vpon him.
- 23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating.
- 24. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steele shall strike him through.
- 25. It is drawen, and commeth out of the body; yea the glistering sword commeth out of his gall; terrours are vpon him.
- 26. All darknesse shalbe hid in his secret places: a fire not blowen shall consume him; it shall goe ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
- 27. The heauen shall reueale his iniquitie: and the earth shall rise vp against him.
- 28. The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
- 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed vnto him by God.
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