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Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: |
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"My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed. |
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I hear a rebuke that dishonours me, and my understanding inspires me to reply. |
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"Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth, |
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that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment. |
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Though his pride reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds, |
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he will perish for ever, like his own dung; those who have seen him will say,`Where is he?' |
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Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found, banished like a vision of the night. |
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The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more. |
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His children must make amends to the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth. |
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The youthful vigour that fills his bones will lie with him in the dust. |
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"Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue, |
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though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth, |
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yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. |
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He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up. |
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He will suck the poison of serpents; the fangs of an adder will kill him. |
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He will not enjoy the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream. |
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What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading. |
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For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build. |
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"Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure. |
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Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure. |
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In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him. |
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When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows upon him. |
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Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him. |
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He pulls it out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver. Terrors will come over him; |
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total darkness lies in wait for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. |
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The heavens will expose his guilt; the earth will rise up against him. |
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A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath. |
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Such is the fate God allots the wicked, the heritage appointed for them by God." |
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