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