1. Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:
2. Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.
3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
5. that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.