- Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
- Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
- I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
- That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
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- Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- "My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer because I am greatly disturbed.
- I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
- "Surely you know how it has been from of old, ever since man was placed on the earth,
- that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
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