1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
2. Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
5. that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
6. If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
7. In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that has seen him shall say: Where is he?
8. As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
9. The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
10. His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render him his sorrow.