1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:
2. In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
3. The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
4. This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
5. that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
6. If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7. in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: "Where is he?"