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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Zophar from Naamath replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Therefore my anxious thoughts cause me to answer because I'm agitated within me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Though he grow as tall as the sky, or though his head touches the clouds, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7he'll perish forever, like his own excrement; those who saw him will ask, 'Where is he?' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"An eye that gazes at him won't do so again; and his place won't even recognize him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His sons will make amends to the poor; their hands will return his wealth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Though his bones were full of youthful vigor; yet they will lie down with him in the dust. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13though he savors it and delays swallowing it so he can taste it again and again in his mouth, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14his food will turn rancid in his stomach— it will become a cobra's poison inside him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Though he swallows wealth, he will vomit it; God will dislodge it from his stomach. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will slay him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He won't look at the rivers— the torrents of honey and curd. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"He will restore what he has attained from his work and won't consume it; he won't enjoy the profits from his business transactions, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Since his appetite won't quit; he won't let anything escape his lust. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Because nothing was left for him to devour, therefore his prosperity won't last. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Even though he is satiated and self-sufficient, he suffers— everyone in any sort of trouble will attack him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"It will come about that, when he has filled himself to the full, God will vent his burning anger on him; he will pour it out on him and on his body. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Though he dodges an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"Total darkness has been reserved for his treasures; a fire that has no need to be kindled will devour him and consume whatever remains in his possession. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Heaven will reveal his iniquity, while the earth will rise up against him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28A flood will wash away his house; dragging it away when God becomes angry. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29This is what the wicked person inherits from God; it is the inheritance that God appoints for him." |
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