Zophar

7 Perish my foe like the wicked,

Mine enemy as the unrighteous.

8 For what is the hope of the godless,

When God requireth his soul?

9 Will God give ear to his cry,

In the day when distress comes upon him?

10 Will Almighty be then his delight?

When he calleth, will God be entreated?

11 I will teach you how God wields His arm,

And not hide the Almighty’s behaviour.verse 12 out of order in original, rework!

12 Ye have all with your own eyes seen it:

Wherefore, then, this idle folly?

13 The wicked man’s portion from God is this,

And the lot the Almighty bestows on the tyrant:

14 If his children grow up, the sword claims them;

His offspring are stinted for bread.

15 By death shall his remnant be buried,

Their widows shall make no lament.

16 Though silver he heap up like dust,

And prepare (costly) raiment like clay,

17 Yet the just shall put on what he stored,

And the silver shall fall to the innocent.

18 Like a spider’s the house which he builded,

Like booth which the vine-keeper maketh.

19 He lieth down rich, but he wakes not;

He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

20 He is caught in a flood of terrors;

In the night he is stolen by a tempest.

21 The east wind bears him away;

It sweepeth him out of his place.

22 He hurleth at him without mercy;

Fain would he escape from His hand.

23 His hands He clappeth at him,

And He hisseth at him from His place.