1. Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
2. Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
3. I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
4. Knowest thou not this of old time, since man was placed upon earth,
5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9. The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10. His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.
11. His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13. Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.