1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,
2“Therefore my thoughts answer me,
3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame.
4Don’t you know this from old time,
5that the triumphing of the wicked is short,
6Though his height mount up to the heavens,
7yet he will perish forever like his own dung.
8He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found.
9The eye which saw him will see him no more,
10His children will seek the favor of the poor.
11His bones are full of his youth,
12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,
13though he spare it, and will not let it go,
14yet his food in his bowels is turned.
15He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again.
16He will suck cobra venom.
17He will not look at the rivers,
18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down.
19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor.
20“Because he knew no quietness within him,
21There was nothing left that he didn’t devour,
22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him.
23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him.
24He will flee from the iron weapon.
25He draws it out, and it comes out of his body.
26All darkness is laid up for his treasures.
27The heavens will reveal his iniquity.
28The increase of his house will depart.
29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,