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¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,² Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.³ I haue heard the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.⁴ Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,⁵ That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?⁶ Though his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,⁷ Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?⁸ He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,⁹ So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

¹⁰ His children shall flatter the poore, & his hands shall restore his substance.¹¹ His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and it shal lie downe with him in the dust.¹² When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,¹³ And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,¹⁴ Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.¹⁵ He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.¹⁶ He shall sucke the gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.¹⁷ He shall not see the riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.¹⁸ He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, & he shal enioy it no more.¹⁹ For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.²⁰ Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of yt which he desired.²¹ There shall none of his meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.²² When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand of all the wicked shall assaile him.

²³ He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.²⁴ He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.²⁵ The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.²⁶ All darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.²⁷ The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.²⁸ The increase of his house shal go away: it shal flow away in the day of his wrath.²⁹ This is the portion of the wicked man fro God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his wordes.