| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer, because I am upset! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding makes me reply. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Don't you know that ever since antiquity, from the time man was placed on earth, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7he will vanish forever like his own dung. Those who know him will ask, "Where is he?" |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The eye that saw him will see him no more, and his household will no longer see him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His children will beg from the poor, for his own hands must give back his wealth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11His bones may be full of youthful vigor, but will lie down with him in the grave. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13though he cherishes it and will not let it go but keeps it in his mouth, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras' venom inside him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He swallows wealth but must vomit it up; God will force it from his stomach. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He will suck the poison of cobras; a viper's fangs will kill him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he doesn't enjoy the profits from his trading. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not let anything he desires escape. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When he fills his stomach, God will send His burning anger against him, raining it down on him while he is eating. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If he flees from an iron weapon, an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He pulls it out of his back, the flashing tip out of his liver. Terrors come over him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him; it will feed on what is left in his tent. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The heavens will expose his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God's anger. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29This is the wicked man's lot from God, the inheritance God ordained for him. |
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