1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2. “My troubled thoughts cause me to answer,because I am very upset.
3. You correct me and I am insulted,but I understand how to answer you.
4. “You know how it has been for a long time,ever since people were first put on the earth.
5. The happiness of evil people is brief,and the joy of the wicked lasts only a moment.
6. Their pride may be as high as the heavens,and their heads may touch the clouds,