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