1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2. “My troubled thoughts cause me to answer.I am very upset.
3. I hear you criticize, and I am insulted.But I understand how to answer you.
4. “You know how it has been for a long time.It has been this way since man was put on the earth.
5. The happiness of an evil person is very short.The joy of a person without God lasts only a moment.
6. His pride may be as high as the heavens.His head may touch the clouds.
7. But he will be gone forever, like his own dung.People who knew him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8. He will fly away like a dream.He will not be found again.He will be chased away like a vision in the night.
9. Those who saw him will not see him again.The place where he lived will see him no more.