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¹ Then responded Zophar the Naamathite, and said: - ² Not so, do my thoughts answer me, and to this end, is my haste within me:³ The correction meant to confound me, I must hear, but, the spirit - out of my understanding, will give me a reply.⁴ Knowest thou, this - from antiquity, from the placing of man upon earth: - ⁵ That, the joy-shout of the lawless, is short, and, the rejoicing of the impious, for a moment?⁶ Though his elevation mount up to the heavens, and, his head, to the clouds, doth reach,⁷ Like his own stubble, shall he utterly perish, They who had seen him, shall say, Where is he?⁸ Like a dream, shall he fly away, and they shall not find him, yea he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night.⁹ The eye that hath scanned him, shall not do it again, neither, any more, shall his place behold him:

¹⁰ His children, shall seek the favour of the poor, and, his own hand, shall give back his wealth.¹¹ His bones, are full of youthful vigour, yet, with him - in the dust, shall it lie down.¹² Though, a sweet taste in his mouth, be given by vice, though he hide it under his tongue;¹³ Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but retain it in the midst of his mouth,¹⁴ His food, in his stomach, is changed, the gall of adders, within him!¹⁵ Wealth, hath he swallowed, and hath vomited the same, Out of his belly, shall, GOD, drive it forth:¹⁶ The poison of adders, shall he suck, The tongue of the viper shall slay him;¹⁷ Let him not see in the channels the flowings of torrents of honey and milk.¹⁸ In vain, he toiled, he shall not swallow, like wealth to be restored, in which he cannot exult!¹⁹ For he hath oppressed - hath forsaken the poor, A house, hath he seized, which he cannot rebuild.²⁰ Surely he hath known no peace in his inmost mind, - With his dearest thing, shall he not get away:²¹ Nothing escaped his devouring greed, - For this cause, shall his prosperity not continue:²² When his abundance is gone, he shall be in straits, All the power of distress, shall come upon him.

²³ It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will thrust at him the glow of his anger, and rain it upon him for his punishment.²⁴ He shall flee from the armour of iron, - There shall pierce him, a bow of bronze!²⁵ He hath drawn it out, and it hath come forth out of his back, - yea the flashing arrow-head, out of his gall, There shall march on him - terrors:²⁶ Every misfortune, is laid up for his treasures, - There shall consume, a fire, not blown up, - it shall destroy what remaineth in his tent:²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and, the earth, be rising up against him:²⁸ The increase of his house shall vanish, melting away in the day of his anger.²⁹ This, is the portion of the lawless man, from God, and the inheritance decreed him from the Mighty One.