1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2. This is why my unsettling thoughts compel me to answer,because I am upset!
3. I have heard a rebuke that insults me,and my understanding makes me reply.
4. Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,from the time man was placed on earth,
5. the joy of the wicked has been briefand the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
6. Though his arrogance reaches heaven,and his head touches the clouds,