1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me,
3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame;
4 Knowest thou
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
6 Though his height mount up to the heavens,
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more;
10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor,
11 His bones are full of his youth,
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go,
14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned,
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again;
16 He shall suck the poison of asps:
17 He shall not look upon the rivers,
18 That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down;
19 For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor;
20 Because he knew no quietness within him,
21 There was nothing left that he devoured not;
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
23 When he is about to fill his belly,
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon,
25 He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body;
26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures:
27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,
28 The increase of his house shall depart;
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God,