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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me. |
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I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answereth me. |
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Knowest thou {cf15i not} this of old time, since man was placed upon earth, |
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That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment? |
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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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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The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
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His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth. |
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His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; |
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Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth; |
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Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. |
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper-s tongue shall slay him. |
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He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. |
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice. |
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For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up. |
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Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. |
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There was nothing left that he devoured not; therefore his prosperity shall not endure. |
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. |
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When he is about to fill his belly, {cf15i God} shall cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. |
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. |
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He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body: yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him. |
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All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown {cf15i by man} shall devour him; it shall consume that which is left in his tent. |
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The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
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The increase of his house shall depart, {cf15i his goods} shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |
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