1. Then Zophar the Naamathite replied,
2. "My troubled thoughts force me to answer you. That's because I'm very upset.
3. What you have just said makes fun of me. So I really have to reply to you.
4. "I'm sure you must know how things have always been. They've been that way ever since man was placed on this earth.
5. Those who are evil are happy for only a short time. The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.
6. Their pride might reach all the way up to the heavens. Their heads might touch the clouds.
7. But they will disappear forever, like the waste from their own bodies. Anyone who has seen them will say, 'Where did they go?'