Then answered <H6030> Zophar <H6691> the Naamathite, <H5284> and said, <H0559>
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Therefore do my thoughts <H5587> cause me to answer, <H7725> and for [this] I make haste. <H2363>
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I have heard <H8085> the check <H4148> of my reproach, <H3639> and the spirit <H7307> of my understanding <H0998> causeth me to answer. <H6030>
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Knowest <H3045> thou [not] this of old, <H5703> since man <H0120> was placed <H7760> upon earth, <H0776>
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That the triumphing <H7445> of the wicked <H7563> [is] short, <H7138> and the joy <H8057> of the hypocrite <H2611> [but] for a moment? <H7281>
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Though his excellency <H7863> mount up <H5927> to the heavens, <H8064> and his head <H7218> reach <H5060> unto the clouds; <H5645>
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[Yet] he shall perish <H0006> for ever <H5331> like his own dung: <H1561> they which have seen <H7200> him shall say, <H0559> Where [is] he? <H0335>
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He shall fly away <H5774> as a dream, <H2472> and shall not be found: <H4672> yea, he shall be chased away <H5074> as a vision <H2384> of the night. <H3915>
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The eye <H5869> also [which] saw <H7805> him shall [see him] no more; <H3254> neither shall his place <H4725> any more behold <H7789> him.
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His children <H1121> shall seek to please <H7521> the poor, <H1800> and his hands <H3027> shall restore <H7725> their goods. <H0202>
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His bones <H6106> are full <H4390> [of the sin] of his youth, <H5934> which shall lie down <H7901> with him in the dust. <H6083>
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Though wickedness <H7451> be sweet <H4985> in his mouth, <H6310> [though] he hide <H3582> it under his tongue; <H3956>
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[Though] he spare <H2550> it, and forsake <H5800> it not; but keep it <H4513> still within <H8432> his mouth: <H2441>
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[Yet] his meat <H3899> in his bowels <H4578> is turned, <H2015> [it is] the gall <H4846> of asps <H6620> within <H7130> him.
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He hath swallowed down <H1104> riches, <H2428> and he shall vomit <H6958> them up again: God <H0410> shall cast them out <H3423> of his belly. <H0990>
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He shall suck <H3243> the poison <H7219> of asps: <H6620> the viper's <H0660> tongue <H3956> shall slay <H2026> him.
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He shall not see <H7200> the rivers, <H6390> the floods, <H5104> the brooks <H5158> of honey <H1706> and butter. <H2529>
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That which he laboured <H3022> for shall he restore, <H7725> and shall not swallow [it] down: <H1104> according to [his] substance <H2428> [shall] the restitution <H8545> [be], and he shall not rejoice <H5965> [therein].
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Because he hath oppressed <H7533> [and] hath forsaken <H5800> the poor; <H1800> [because] he hath violently taken away <H1497> an house <H1004> which he builded <H1129> not;
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Surely he shall not feel <H3045> quietness <H7961> in his belly, <H0990> he shall not save <H4422> of that which he desired. <H2530>
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There shall none of his meat <H0400> be left; <H8300> therefore shall no man look <H2342> for his goods. <H2898>
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In the fulness <H4390> of his sufficiency <H5607> he shall be in straits: <H3334> every hand <H3027> of the wicked <H6001> shall come <H0935> upon him.
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[When] he is about to fill <H4390> his belly, <H0990> [God] shall cast <H7971> the fury <H2740> of his wrath <H0639> upon him, and shall rain <H4305> [it] upon him while he is eating. <H3894>
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He shall flee <H1272> from the iron <H1270> weapon, <H5402> [and] the bow <H7198> of steel <H5154> shall strike him through. <H2498>
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It is drawn, <H8025> and cometh out <H3318> of the body; <H1465> yea, the glittering <H1300> sword cometh out <H1980> of his gall: <H4846> terrors <H0367> [are] upon him.
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All darkness <H2822> [shall be] hid <H2934> in his secret places: <H6845> a fire <H0784> not blown <H5301> shall consume <H0398> him; it shall go ill <H3415> with him that is left <H8300> in his tabernacle. <H0168>
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The heaven <H8064> shall reveal <H1540> his iniquity; <H5771> and the earth <H0776> shall rise up <H6965> against him.
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The increase <H2981> of his house <H1004> shall depart, <H1540> [and his goods] shall flow away <H5064> in the day <H3117> of his wrath. <H0639>
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This [is] the portion <H2506> of a wicked <H7563> man <H0120> from God, <H0430> and the heritage <H5159> appointed <H0561> unto him by God. <H0410>