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1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2“Listen! My thoughts urge me to answer
because of the agitation within me.
3I hear censure that insults me,[#Job 19.3]
and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
4Do you not know this from of old,[#Deut 4.32]
ever since mortals were placed on earth,
5that the exulting of the wicked is short[#Ps 37.35; 73.19]
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
6Even though they mount up high as the heavens[#Isa 14.13, 14]
and their head reaches to the clouds,
7they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
8They will fly away like a dream and not be found;[#Job 18.18; 27.21–23; Ps 73.20; 90.5]
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.
9The eye that saw them will see them no more,[#Job 7.8, 10]
nor will their place behold them any longer.
10Their children will seek the favor of the poor,[#Job 5.4; 27.16, 17]
and their hands will give back their wealth.
11Their bodies, once full of youth,[#Job 13.26; 21.26]
will lie down in the dust with them.
12“Though wickedness is sweet in their mouth,[#Ps 10.7; Prov 20.17]
though they hide it under their tongues,
13though they are loath to let it go
and hold it in their mouths,
14yet their food is turned in their stomachs;
it is the venom of asps within them.
15They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;
God casts them out of their bellies.
16They will suck the poison of asps;[#Deut 32.24, 33]
the tongue of a viper will kill them.
17They will not look on the rivers,[#Deut 32.13, 14; Job 29.6]
the streams flowing with honey and curds.
18They will give back the fruit of their toil[#vv 10, 15]
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
they will get no enjoyment.
19For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;[#Job 24.2–4; 35.9]
they have seized a house that they did not build.
20“For they knew no quiet in their bellies;[#Eccl 5.13, 14]
in their greed they let nothing escape.
21There was nothing left after they had eaten;[#Job 15.29]
therefore their prosperity will not endure.
22In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
23To fill their belly to the full,[#Ps 78.30, 31]
God will send his fierce anger into them
and rain it upon them as their food.
24They will flee from an iron weapon;[#Isa 24.18; Jer 48.43; Am 5.19]
a bronze arrow will strike them through.
25It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,[#Job 16.13; 18.11]
and the glittering point comes out of their gall;
terrors come upon them.
26Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;[#Job 18.18; Ps 21.9]
a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
what is left in their tent will be consumed.
27The heavens will reveal their iniquity,[#Deut 31.28]
and the earth will rise up against them.
28The possessions of their house will be carried away,[#Deut 28.31; Job 21.30]
dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.
29This is the portion of the wicked from God,[#Job 27.13]
the heritage decreed for them by God.”