1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2 “Therefore my thoughts cause me to answer,and for this I make haste.
3 I have heard the rebuke that disgraces me,and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
4 “Do you not know this of old,since man was placed upon earth,
5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short,and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
6 Though his loftiness extends to the heavens,and his head reaches to the clouds,
7 yet he will perish forever like his own excrement;those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’