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;