1. Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered and said,
2. My thoughts certainly cause me to answer, and therefore, I make haste.
3. I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my intelligence causes me to answer.
4. Dost thou not know this that always was, since man was placed upon earth,
5. that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6. Though his excellency mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches unto the clouds,
7. yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; those who have seen him shall say, What is become of him?