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Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:
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"Therefore my anxious thoughts make me answer, Because of the turmoil within me.
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I have heard the rebuke that reproaches me, And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
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"Do you not know this of old, Since man was placed on earth,
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That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
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Though his haughtiness mounts up to the heavens, And his head reaches to the clouds,
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Yet he will perish forever like his own refuse; Those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
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He will fly away like a dream, and not be found; Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
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The eye that saw him will see him no more, Nor will his place behold him anymore.