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XX] :Yet in my flesh shall I see God:
 * Whom I shall see for myself,
 * And mine eyes shall behold, and not another;
 * Though my reins be consumed within me.
 * But ye should say, Why persecute we him,
 * Seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
 * Be ye afraid of the sword:
 * For wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword,
 * That ye may know there is a judgment.

answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
 * do my thoughts cause me to answer,
 * And for this I make haste.
 * I have heard the check of my reproach.
 * And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
 * Knowest thou not this of old.
 * Since man was placed upon earth,
 * That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
 * And the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
 * Though his excellency mount up to the heavens,
 * And his head reach unto the clouds;
 * Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung:
 * They which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
 * He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found:
 * Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.