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| 1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, |
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| 2 Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me. |
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| 3 I hear a reproof putting me to shame; and my spirit answereth me by mine understanding. |
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| 4 Knowest thou not this, that of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
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| 5 The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment? |
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| 6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds, |
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| 7 Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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| 8 He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night. |
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| 9 The eye which saw him shall see him not again; and his place beholdeth him no more. |
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| 10 His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth. |
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| 11 His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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| 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue, |
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| 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth, |
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| 14 His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him. |
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| 15 He hath swallowed down riches, but 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 kill him. |
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| 17 He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter. |
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| 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein2. |
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| 19 For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build. |
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| 20 Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired. |
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| 21 Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure. |
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| 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him. |
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| 23 It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh. |
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| 24 If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through. |
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| 25 He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
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| 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent. |
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| 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
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| 28 The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger. |
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| 29 This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by *God. |
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