1Then Zophar replied,
2“I am very perturbed about what you have said,
3By saying these things you have insulted me,
4“Do you not know that from long ago,
5wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time,
6Even though their reputation/pride reaches up to the sky
7they will disappear forever, like their own dung,
8They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is,
9Those who saw those people previously will never see them again;
10Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that those children stole from poor people [DOU].
11Previously their bodies were young and strong,
12“Doing wicked things was like having sweet food in their mouths,
13And they did not want to stop doing those things,
14but some day the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food that they swallow
15Wicked people will not continue to keep the money they have accumulated,
16What wicked people do is like [MET] swallowing snake venom;
17They will not remain alive to see abundant blessings [IDM] from God, milk and olive oil and honey,
18They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor;
19because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them,
20“They were always greedy and never satisfied.
21When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over because they had greedily eaten it all;
22When they are extremely prosperous/wealthy,
23When the wicked people are filling their stomachs,
24They will try to escape from being killed by iron weapons,
25The arrows will go completely through their bodies and stick out of their backs;
26Their valuable possessions will all be destroyed;
27The angels in heaven [MTY] will reveal the sins that those wicked people have committed,
28When God punishes [MTY] people,
29That is what will happen to wicked people like you;