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Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, |
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Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for I make haste. |
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I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer. |
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Knowest thou this of old, since man was placed upon earth, |
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That the triumphing of the wicked short, and the joy of the hypocrite for a moment? |
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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; |
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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where he? |
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. |
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The eye also saw him shall no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. |
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His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. |
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His bones are full of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, he hide it under his tongue; |
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# Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: |
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Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, the gall of asps within him. |
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He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. |
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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
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He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. |
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That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow down: according to substance the restitution , and he shall not rejoice . |
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Because he hath oppressed hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; |
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Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. |
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There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. |
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In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
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When he is about to fill his belly, shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain upon him while he is eating. |
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He shall flee from the iron weapon, the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
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It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors upon him. |
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All darkness hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. |
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The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. |
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The increase of his house shall depart, shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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This the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God. |