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| [1]Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and said, |
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| [2]Doubtless my thoughts cause me to answer, and therefore I make haste. |
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| [3]I have heard the correction of my reproach: therefore the spirit of mine understanding causeth me to answer. |
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| [4]Knowest thou not this of old? And since God placed man upon the earth, |
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| [5]That the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and that the joy of hypocrites is but a moment? |
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| [6]Though his excellency mount up to the heaven, and his head reach unto the clouds, |
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| [7]Yet shall he perish forever, like his dung, and they which have seen him, shall say, Where is he? |
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| [8]He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night, |
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| [9]So that the eye which had seen him, shall do so no more, and his place shall see him no more. |
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| [10]His children shall flatter the poor, and his hands shall restore his substance. |
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| [11]His bones are full of the sin of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust. |
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| [12]When wickedness was sweet in his mouth, and he hid it under his tongue, |
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| [13]And favored it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth, |
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| [14]Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of asps was in the midst of him. |
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| [15]He hath devoured substance, and he shall vomit it: for God shall draw it out of his belly. |
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| [16]He shall suck the gall of asps, and the viper's tongue shall slay him. |
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| [17]He shall not see the rivers, nor the floods and streams of honey and butter. |
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| [18]He shall restore the labor, and shall devour no more: even according to the substance shall be his exchange, and he shall enjoy it no more. |
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| [19]For he hath undone many: he hath forsaken the poor, and hath spoiled houses which he builded not. |
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| [20]Surely he shall feel no quietness in his body, neither shall he reserve of that which he desired. |
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| [21]There shall none of his meat be left: therefore none shall hope for his goods. |
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| [22]When he shall be filled with his abundance, he shall be in pain , and the hand of all the wicked shall assail him. |
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| [23]He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall send upon him his fierce wrath, and shall cause to rain upon him, even upon his meat. |
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| [24]He shall flee from the iron weapons, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. |
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| [25]The arrow is drawn out, and cometh forth of the body, and shineth of his gall, so fear cometh upon him. |
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| [26]All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: the fire that is not blown shall devour him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shall be destroyed. |
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| [27]The heaven shall declare his wickedness, and the earth shall rise up against him. |
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| [28]The increase of his house shall go away: it shall flow away in the day of his wrath. |
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| [29]This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage that he shall have of God for his words. |
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