1 Then Tsophar the Na‛amathite answered and said,
2 “Truly, my thoughts make me respond, even because of my haste within me.
3 I have listened to the reproof which insults me, and the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
4 You have known this of old, since man was placed on earth,
5 that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?
6 Although his pride mounts up to the heavens, and his head does reach to the clouds,
7 he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him say, ‘Where is he?’