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,
7. but they will be gone forever, like their own dung.People who knew them will say, ‘Where are they?’