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1 | Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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2 | Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I
make haste. |
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3 | I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my
understanding causeth me to answer. |
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4 | Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
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5 | That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment? |
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6 | Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head
reach unto the clouds; |
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7 | Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which
have seen him shall say, Where is he? |
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8 | 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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9 | The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither
shall his place any more behold him. |
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10 | His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
shall restore their goods. |
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11 | His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie
down with him in the dust. |
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12 | Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it
under his tongue; |
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13 | Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still
within his mouth: |
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14 | Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him. |
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15 | He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
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16 | He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall
slay him. |
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17 | He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
and butter. |
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18 | 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. |
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19 | Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
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20 | Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not
save of that which he desired. |
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21 | There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man
look for his goods. |
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22 | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
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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 while he is
eating. |
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24 | He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall
strike him through. |
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25 | It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering
sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. |
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26 | 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. |
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27 | The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise
up against him. |
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28 | The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall
flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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29 | This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage
appointed unto him by God. |
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