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