1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,
3I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame;
4Knowest thou not this of old time,
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
6Though his height mount up to the heavens,
7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:
8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
9The eye which saw him shall see him no more;
10His children shall seek the favor of the poor,
11His bones are full of his youth,
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
13Though he spare it, and will not let it go,
14Yet his food in his bowels is turned,
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again;
16He shall suck the poison of asps:
17He shall not look upon the rivers,
18That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down;
19For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor;
20Because he knew no quietness within him,
21There was nothing left that he devoured not;
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
23When he is about to fill his belly,
24He shall flee from the iron weapon,
25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body;
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures:
27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,
28The increase of his house shall depart;
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,