1. Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:
2. “This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back –because of my feelings within me.
3. When I hear a reproof that dishonors me,then my understanding prompts me to answer.
4. “Surely you know that it has been from old,ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
5. that the elation of the wicked is brief,the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.