1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer,
3I have heard the check of my reproach,
4Knowest thou not this of old,
5That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
6Though his excellency 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 also which saw him shall see him no more;
10His children shall seek to please the poor,
11His bones are full of the sin of his youth,
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
13Though he spare it, and forsake it not;
14Yet his meat 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 see the rivers,
18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down:
19Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor;
20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly,
21There shall none of his meat be left;
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,
25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body;
26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places:
27The heaven shall reveal his iniquity;
28The increase of his house shall depart,
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,