1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, 2"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, 3I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. 4Do you not know this from old time, 5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, 6Though his height mount up to the heavens, 7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. 8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. 9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, 10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. 11His bones are full of his youth, 12"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, 13though he spare it, and will not let it go, 14yet his food in his bowels is turned. 15He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. 16He shall suck cobra venom. 17He shall not look at the rivers, 18That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. 19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. 20"Because he knew no quietness within him, 21There was nothing left that he did not devour, 22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. 23When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. 24He shall flee from the iron weapon. 25He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. 26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. 28The increase of his house shall depart. 29This is the portion of a wicked man from God,