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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back--because of my feelings within me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13if he retains it for himself and does not let it go, and holds it fast in his mouth, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He will not look on the streams, the rivers, which are the torrents of honey and butter. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God." |
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