1. Then answered Tzophar the Na'amati, and said,
2. Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and ba'avur (because of [this]) I make haste.
3. I hear the musar that insults me, and the ruach of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4. Knowest thou not this of old, since adam was placed upon earth,
5. That the triumphing of the resha'im is short, and the simchat chanef (joy of the hypocrite) but for a moment?
6. Though his excellency mount up to Shomayim, and his rosh reach unto the clouds;
7. Yet he shall perish lanetzach (forever) like his own dung; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8. He shall fly away as a chalom, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a chezyon lailah.
9. The ayin also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his makom any more behold him.
10. His banim shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
11. His atzmot are full of youthful vigor, which shall lie down with him in the aphar.
12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his leshon;
13. Though he savor it, and forsake it not, but keep it still betoch (within) his mouth;
14. Yet his lechem in his stomach is turned sour; it is the venom of vipers within him.
15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; El shall drive them out of his beten.