1   Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide,

2   Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere, and therefore I make haste.

3   I haue heard ^note the correction of my reproch: therefore the spirite of mine vnderstanding causeth me to answere.

4   Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

5   That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

6   Though ^note his excellencie mount vp to the heauen, and his head reache vnto the cloudes,

7   Yet shall hee perish for euer, like his dung, and they which haue seene him, shall say, Where is hee?

8   He shal flee away as a dreame, and they shal not finde him, and shall passe away as a vision of the night,

9   So that the eye which had seene him, shall do so no more, & his place shal see him no more.

10   His children shall ^note flatter the poore, & his hands shall ^note restore his substance.

11   His bones are full of the sinne of his youth, and ^note it shal lie downe with him in the dust.

12   When wickednesse ^note was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

13   And fauoured it, and would not forsake it, but kept it close in his mouth,

14   Then his meat in his bowels was turned: the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him.

15   He hath deuoured substance, and hee shall vomit it: for God shall drawe it out of his bellie.

16   He shall sucke the ^note gall of Aspes, and the vipers tongue shall slay him.

17   He shall not see the ^note riuers, nor the floods and streames of honie and butter.

18   He shal restore the labour, and shall deuoure no more: euen according to the substance shalbe his exchange, ^note & he shal enioy it no more.

19   For he hath vndone many: he hath forsaken the poore, and hath spoyled houses which he builded not.

20   Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie, neither shall he reserue of þt; which he desired.

21   There shall none of his ^note meate bee left: therefore none shal hope for his goods.

22   When he shalbe filled with his abundance, he shalbe in paine, and the hand ^note of all the wicked shall assaile him.

The prosperitie of the wicked.

23   He shall be about to fill his belly, but God shall sende vpon him his fierce wrath, ^note and shall cause to rayne vpon him, euen vpon his meate.

24   He shall flee from the yron weapons, and the bow of steele shal strike him through.

25   The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the ^note body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.

26    ^noteAll darkenes shalbe hid in his secret places: the fire that is not ^note blowen, shall deuoure him, and that which remaineth in his tabernacle, shalbe destroyed.

27   The heauen shal declare his wickednes, & the earth shal rise vp against him.

28   The ^note increase of his house shal go away: it shal flow away in the day of his wrath.

29   This is the portion of the wicked man fr&obar; ^note God, and the heritage that he shal haue of God for his ^note wordes.

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