1Then Zophar the Naamathite answered by saying:stylusHosea 4:11, Hosea 4:11, Ephesians 5:18, Ephesians 5:18, Isaiah 28:72In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.stylusProverbs 19:12, Proverbs 19:12, Ecclesiastes 10:4, Proverbs 8:36, 1 Kings 2:233The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.stylusProverbs 16:32, Proverbs 16:32, Proverbs 17:14, Proverbs 17:14, Ephesians 4:324This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:stylusProverbs 10:4, Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 19:15, Proverbs 19:15, 2 Peter 1:55that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.stylusProverbs 18:4, Proverbs 18:4, 1 Corinthians 2:11, 1 Corinthians 2:11, Psalms 64:66If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,stylusPsalms 12:1, Psalms 12:1, Matthew 6:2, Matthew 6:2, Luke 18:87in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: “Where is he?”stylusPsalms 112:2, Psalms 112:2, Psalms 37:26, Psalms 37:26, Jeremiah 32:398Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.stylusProverbs 20:26, Proverbs 25:5, Proverbs 20:26, Proverbs 25:5, Psalms 99:49The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.stylusEcclesiastes 7:20, Ecclesiastes 7:20, 1 Kings 8:46, 1 John 1:8, 1 John 1:1010His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.stylusProverbs 20:23, Proverbs 11:1, Proverbs 20:23, Proverbs 11:1, Deuteronomy 25:1311His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.stylusMatthew 7:16, Matthew 7:16, Luke 6:43, Luke 6:44, Proverbs 21:812For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.stylusPsalms 94:9, Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:16, Psalms 94:9, Matthew 13:1313He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.stylusProverbs 19:15, Proverbs 19:15, Romans 12:11, Romans 12:11, Proverbs 12:1114His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.stylus1 Thessalonians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians 4:6, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, Hosea 12:715The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.stylusProverbs 25:12, Proverbs 8:11, Proverbs 25:12, Proverbs 8:11, Proverbs 16:2416He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.stylusProverbs 27:13, Proverbs 27:13, Exodus 22:26, Exodus 22:27, Proverbs 22:2617(May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)stylusProverbs 9:17, Proverbs 9:18, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Proverbs 9:17, Proverbs 9:1818He will be repaid for all he has done, yet he will not be consumed; according to the multitude of his schemes, so also will he suffer.stylusProverbs 24:6, Proverbs 24:6, Proverbs 15:22, Luke 14:31, Proverbs 15:2219For, having broken in, he stripped the poor. He has quickly stolen away a house he did not build.stylusProverbs 11:13, Proverbs 11:13, Proverbs 18:8, Proverbs 13:3, Romans 16:1820And yet his stomach will not be satisfied, and when he has the things he desires, he will not be able to possess them.stylusExodus 21:17, Exodus 21:17, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 30:11, Proverbs 24:2021Nothing remained of his portion, and, because of this, nothing will continue of his kind.stylusProverbs 13:22, Proverbs 13:22, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:9, Habakkuk 2:622When he will be satisfied, he will be constrained; he will seethe, and all anguish will fall upon him.stylusRomans 12:17, Romans 12:19, Romans 12:17, Romans 12:19, 1 Thessalonians 5:1523May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.stylusProverbs 20:10, Proverbs 20:10, Proverbs 11:1, Ezekiel 45:10, Hosea 12:724He will flee from weapons of iron, and he will fall in an arc of brass,stylusJeremiah 10:23, Jeremiah 10:23, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 16:9, Psalms 25:1225which had been drawn and had issued forth from its sheath, glittering in its bitterness: the horrible ones will go forth and approach over him.stylusEcclesiastes 5:4, Ecclesiastes 5:6, Ecclesiastes 5:4, Ecclesiastes 5:6, Matthew 5:3326All darkness has been hidden in his secrecy. A fire that has not been set will devour him; he will be thrown down and forsaken in his tabernacle.stylusProverbs 20:8, Proverbs 20:8, Psalms 101:5, Psalms 101:8, 2 Samuel 4:927The heavens will reveal his sinfulness, and the earth will rise up against him.stylus1 Corinthians 2:11, 1 Corinthians 2:11, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13, Hebrews 4:1228The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.stylusProverbs 16:12, Proverbs 29:14, Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 29:14, Proverbs 16:629This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his words from the Lord.stylus1 John 2:14, 1 John 2:14, Proverbs 16:31, Proverbs 16:31, Leviticus 19:32