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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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