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