1Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said, 2My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste. 3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer. 4Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth, 5that the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment? 6Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds, 7[yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him? 8He shall fly away as a dream and shall not be found: [yea], he shall flee away as a vision of the night. 9The eye [which] saw him shall [see him] no more; neither shall his place behold him any more. 10His poor sons shall go forth begging, and their hands shall restore that which he stole. 11His bones are full [of the sins] of his youth, which shall be buried with him in the dust. 12If wickedness was sweet in his mouth, if he hid it under his tongue, 13if it seemed good unto him, and he did not forsake it, but savored it within his mouth, 14his food shall be changed in his bowels, [it shall be] the gall of asps within him. 15He has swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again; God shall cast them out of his belly. 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 18He shall restore the work [that was not his]; according to the substance that he took; neither shall he devour, nor rejoice. 19Because he oppressed [and] forsook the poor; [because] he has violently taken away houses which he did not build, 20therefore, he shall not feel quietness in his belly; he shall not escape with that which he desired. 21Nothing is left that he did not eat; therefore, his goods shall not last. 22In the fullness of his sufficiency, he shall come into anguish; the hands of all the wicked shall come upon him. 23[When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him and shall rain [it] upon him and upon his food. 24He shall flee from the weapons of iron, [and] the bow of bronze shall strike him through. 25He shall draw forth [an arrow] from his quiver, and [like] lightning it shall strike through his gall; terrors shall come upon him. 26All darkness is kept for his secrets; a fire not blown shall consume him; his successor shall be broken in his tent. 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. 28The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath. 29This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God and the heritage that God appoints unto him by his word.: