1Then Sophar the Naamathite answered, and said:

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Job 2:11, Job 2:11, Job 42:9, Job 11:1, Job 42:9

2Therefore various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind is hurried away to different things.

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Proverbs 14:29, Psalms 31:22, Proverbs 14:29, Psalms 31:22, Job 13:19

3The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.

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Job 33:3, Job 33:3, Job 27:11, Job 20:2, Psalms 78:2

4This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

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Job 8:8, Job 8:9, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 9:3

5That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

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Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Psalms 37:35, Psalms 37:36, Job 18:5

6If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

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Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:14, Obadiah 1:3

7In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

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2 Kings 9:37, 1 Kings 14:10, Psalms 83:10, Job 14:10, 2 Kings 9:37

8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

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Psalms 73:20, Psalms 90:5, Psalms 73:20, Psalms 90:5, Isaiah 29:7

9The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

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Job 7:8, Job 7:8, Job 7:10, Job 7:10, Job 8:18

10His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

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Job 20:18, Job 20:18, Luke 19:8, Job 27:16, Job 27:17

11His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

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Job 13:26, Job 13:26, Psalms 25:7, Job 21:26, Psalms 25:7

12For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

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Psalms 10:7, Psalms 10:7, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Job 15:16, Ecclesiastes 11:9

13He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

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Romans 8:13, Mark 9:43, Mark 9:49, Numbers 11:18, Numbers 11:20

14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

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Romans 3:13, Romans 3:13, Psalms 38:1, Psalms 38:8, Proverbs 23:20

15The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

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Proverbs 23:8, Proverbs 23:8, Matthew 27:3, Matthew 27:4, Matthew 27:3

16He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

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Romans 3:13, Acts 28:3, Acts 28:6, Romans 3:13, Acts 28:3

17Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

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Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:14, Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:14, Luke 16:24

18He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

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Jeremiah 51:44, Job 20:15, Job 20:10, Jeremiah 22:13, Proverbs 1:12

19Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

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Job 35:9, Job 35:9, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 14:31, Job 31:38

20And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them.

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Ecclesiastes 5:13, Ecclesiastes 5:14, Ecclesiastes 5:13, Ecclesiastes 5:14, Isaiah 57:20

21There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods:

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Job 15:29, Jeremiah 17:11, Luke 16:24, Luke 16:25, Job 18:19

22When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him.

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Psalms 39:5, Job 1:17, Isaiah 10:6, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:20

23May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war upon him.

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Psalms 78:30, Psalms 78:31, Psalms 78:30, Psalms 78:31, Numbers 11:33

24He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon a bow of brass.

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Amos 5:19, Isaiah 24:18, Amos 5:19, Isaiah 24:18, 2 Samuel 22:35

25The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the terrible ones shall go and come upon him.

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Job 16:13, Job 18:11, Job 16:13, Job 18:11, Deuteronomy 32:41

26All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when left in his tabernacle.

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Psalms 21:9, Psalms 21:9, Psalms 120:4, Psalms 120:4, Job 18:18

27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

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Isaiah 26:21, Job 16:18, Isaiah 26:21, Job 16:18, Malachi 3:5

28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

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Job 27:14, Job 27:19, Job 27:14, Job 27:19, Job 20:10

29This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his doings from the Lord.

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Job 27:13, Job 27:13, Job 31:2, Job 31:3, Job 31:2