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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’ |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12“Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20“Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.” |
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