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| 1 And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: |
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| 2 Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer, And because of my sensations in me. |
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| 3 The chastisement of my shame I hear, And the spirit of mine understanding Doth cause me to answer: |
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| 4 This hast thou known from antiquity Since the placing of man on earth |
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| 5 That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, |
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| 6 Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike |
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| 7 As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: 'Where [is] he ' |
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| 8 As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night, |
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| 9 The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.
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| 10 His sons do the poor oppress, And his hands give back his wealth. |
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| 11 His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down. |
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| 12 Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue, |
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| 13 Hath pity on it, and doth not forsake it, And keep it back in the midst of his palate, |
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| 14 His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart. |
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| 15 Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out. |
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| 16 Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper. |
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| 17 He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter. |
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| 18 He is giving back [what] he laboured for, And doth not consume [it]; As a bulwark [is] his exchange, and he exults not. |
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| 19 For he oppressed he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it. |
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| 20 For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself. |
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| 21 There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay. |
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| 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him. |
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| 23 It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating. |
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| 24 He fleeth from an iron weapon, Pass through him doth a bow of brass. |
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| 25 One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him [are] terrors. |
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| 26 All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent. |
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| 27 Reveal do the heavens his iniquity, And earth is raising itself against him. |
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| 28 Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger. |
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| 29 This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God. |
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