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* Then answered Zophar the Naamathite and saide , * Doubtles my thoughts cause me to answere , and therefore I make haste . * I have heard (note :)He declares that two things moved him to speak : that is , because Job seemed to touch him , and because he thought he had knowledge sufficient to confute him .(:note ) the check of my reproach , and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer . * Knowest thou not this of olde ? and since God placed man vpon the earth , * That the reioycing of the wicked is short , and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment ? * Though (note :)His purpose is to prove Job to be a wicked man , and a hypocrite , because God punished him , and changed his prosperity into adversity .(:note ) his excellency mount up to the heavens , and his head reach unto the clouds ; * Yet shall hee perish for euer , like his dung , and they which haue seene him , shall say , Where is hee ? * He shal flee away as a dreame , and they shal not finde him , and shall passe away as a vision of the night , * So that the eye which had seene him , shall do so no more , &amp ; his place shal see him no more . * His children shall (note :)While the father through ambition and tyranny oppressed the poor , the children through poverty and misery will seek favour from the poor .(:note ) seek to please the poor , and his hands shall So that the thing which he has taken away by violence will be restored again by force . restore their goods . * His bones are full [of the sin ] of his youth , which (note :)Meaning that he will carry nothing away with him but his sin .(:note ) shall lie down with him in the dust . * Though wickedness be (note :)As poison that is sweet in the mouth brings destruction when it comes into the body : so all vice at the first is pleasant , but God later turns it to destruction .(:note ) sweet in his mouth , [though ] he hide it under his tongue ; * And fauoured it , and would not forsake it , but kept it close in his mouth , * Then his meat in his bowels was turned : the gall of Aspes was in the middes of him . * He hath deuoured substance , and hee shall vomit it : for God shall drawe it out of his bellie . * He shall suck the (note :)He compares ill-gotten goods to the venom of asps , which is a dangerous serpent , noting that Jobs great riches were not truly come by and therefore God plagues him justly for the same .(:note ) poison of asps : the viper 's tongue shall slay him . * He shall not see the (note :)Though God gives all other abundance from his blessings yet he will have no part of it .(:note ) rivers , the floods , the brooks of honey and butter . * That which he laboured for shall he restore , and shall not swallow [it ] down : according to [his ] substance [shall ] the restitution [be ], (note :)That is these raveners and spoilers of the poor will enjoy their theft but for a time for after God will take it from them , and cause them to make restitution so that it is only an exchange .(:note ) and he shall not rejoice [therein ]. * For he hath vndone many : he hath forsaken the poore , and hath spoyled houses which he builded not . * Surely he shall feele no quietnes in his bodie , neither shall he reserue of that which he desired . * There shall none of his (note :)He will leave nothing to his posterity .(:note ) meat be left ; therefore shall no man look for his goods . * In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits : every hand (note :)The wicked will never be in rest : for one wicked man will seek to destroy another .(:note ) of the wicked shall come upon him . * [When ] he is about to fill his belly , [God ] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him , (note :)Some read , upon his flesh , alluding to Job , whose flesh was smitten with a scab .(:note ) and shall rain [it ] upon him while he is eating . * He shall flee from the yron weapons , and the bow of steele shal strike him through . * It is drawn , and cometh out of the (note :)Some read , of the quiver .(:note ) body ; yea , the glittering sword cometh out of his gall : terrors [are ] upon him . * * The heauen shal declare his wickednes , &amp ; the earth shal rise vp against him . * The (note :)Meaning , the children of the wicked will flow away like rivers and be dispersed in various places .(:note ) increase of his house shall depart , [and his goods ] shall flow away in the day of his wrath . * This [is ] the portion of a wicked man from (note :)Thus God will plague the wicked .(:note ) God , and the heritage appointed unto him by Against God , thinking to excuse himself , and to escape God 's hand . God .

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