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¹ THEN Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,² Therefore my discipline has caused me to discern, and for my help it has remained with me.³ I will make you hear the instruction of my discipline, and the spirit of my understanding will cause me to answer.⁴ This I know from of old, since man was created upon the earth,⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment.⁶ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach to the clouds,⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like a whirlwind; those who have seen him shall say, Where is he?⁸ He shall fly away like a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.⁹ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall they see his place again.

¹⁰ His children shall be crushed with poverty, and he shall stretch out his hands toward them.¹¹ His bones are full of marrow, but they shall lie down with him in the dust.¹² Though his wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide deceit under his tongue,¹³ Though he spare it and forsake it not, but keep it still in his mouth;¹⁴ Yet his food in his stomach is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.¹⁵ The riches which he had swallowed down, he shall vomit up out of his belly; and God shall destroy him.¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps; the tongue of an adder shall slay him.¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.¹⁸ That which he had labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; that which he had acquired by extortion he shall not enjoy;¹⁹ Because he has thought to forsake the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he did not build.²⁰ Because he knew no justice himself, he shall not be spared by his covetousness.²¹ There shall none of his posterity be spared; therefore his good will not be remembered.²² With the measure with which he had measured, he shall be recompensed; the hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

²³ May his posterity go to destruction, may God cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and deluge him while he wars against him.²⁴ For although he had escaped because of the breastplate of iron, the bow of brass shall pierce him through.²⁵ It is drawn, and it brings forth his inward parts; and the skin of his gall shall be pierced; terror shall be upon him continually.²⁶ All darkness is kept in store for his posterity; a blazing fire shall consume him; and the one who is left in his tent shall be destroyed.²⁷ The heaven shall reveal his sins; and the earth avenge itself upon him.²⁸ The foundations of his house shall be left bare and he shall be scourged in the day of his wrath.²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him from the Highest.