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\c 20
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\v 1 Then Zophar replied again:
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\v 2 "I am very troubled about what you have said,
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\q2 so I want to reply very quickly.
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\q1
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\v 3 By saying these things you have insulted me,
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\q2 but something within my understanding suggests to me how I may reply to you.
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\q1
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\v 4 Do you not know that from long ago,
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\q2 ever since God first put people on the earth,
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\v 5 that wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time,
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\q2 and that people who refuse to honor God are happy only for a moment?
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\v 6 Although their reputations reach up to the sky,
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\q2 and their fame goes up as high as the clouds,
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\v 7 they will disappear forever, like their own excrement,
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\q2 and those who knew them will ask, 'Where did they go?'
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\v 8 They will disappear as a dream does,
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\q2 and they will exist no more.
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\q1 They will vanish like dreams that people have during the night.
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\v 9 Those people who now see those wicked people will never see them again;
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\q2 even the people who lived with them will not see them anymore.
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\v 10 Their children will be forced to return the valuable things that they stole from poor people.
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\v 11 The bodies of the wicked were once young and strong,
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\q2 but they will die and be buried in the ground.
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\v 12 Although doing wicked things was like having sweet food in their mouths
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\q2 that they wanted to continue tasting,
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\v 13 and although they did not want to stop doing those things,
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\v 14 those evil things will someday become like poison that they swallow,
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\q2 or like the poison from snakes.
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\v 15 Wicked people pile up wealth for themselves, but they do not keep it forever,
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\q2 just like people do not keep down the food that they vomit.
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\q1 God takes their wealth from them.
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\v 16 Doing evil deeds is like swallowing snake poison;
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\q2 doing evil will kill the wicked as the bite of a poisonous snake will kill people.
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\v 17 The wicked will not remain alive to see the abundant blessings from God,
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\q2 which are like a stream that flows.
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\v 18 They will be forced to give back the things that they stole from the poor;
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\q2 they will not be able to continue to enjoy those things.
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\q1 They will not remain happy because of what they got from their business
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\v 19 because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them,
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\q2 and they took other people's houses by cheating them.
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\v 20 They were always greedy and never satisfied.
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\q2 So when they ate, they ate so much that they never saved anything that they enjoyed.
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\v 21 When they finished eating their food, there was never anything left over because they had greedily eaten it all;
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\q2 but now their prosperity will end.
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\v 22 When they are still very wealthy,
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\q2 they will suddenly experience trouble.
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\q2 Misery will strike them and crush them.
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\v 23 When the wicked people are filling their stomachs,
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\q2 God will show that he is very angry with them, and he will punish them;
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\q2 he will bring down suffering on them like the rain that falls on the ground.
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\v 24 They will try to escape from people who will attack them with iron weapons,
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\q2 but arrows with bronze points will pierce them.
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\v 25 The arrows will go completely through their bodies and stick out of their backs;
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\q2 the shiny points of the arrows will have blood dripping from them,
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\q2 and those wicked people will be terrified.
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\v 26 Their valuable possessions will all be destroyed;
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\q2 a fire started by God, not by humans, will burn them up
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\q2 and will destroy the things that are left in their tents.
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\v 27 The angels in heaven will reveal the sins that those wicked people have committed,
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\q2 and people on earth will stand up and testify against them.
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\v 28 On the day when God punishes people,
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\q2 all the possessions in the wicked people's houses will be carried away, as if a flood had come.
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\v 29 That is what will happen to wicked people like you;
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\q2 that is what God has decreed for them."
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