Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their sudden downfall.
God is the portion of the righteous who seek Him; while the wicked, who do not seek God, are without him. Hell being the place without God.
“Now holy men desire not to receive a portion from the Lord, but to have the Lord Himself for their portion. Hence the Prophet prays, saying, God is my portion forever [Ps. 73, 26]: but the wicked man, because he sought not to have the Lord Himself for his ‘portion,’ found fire for his ‘portion’ without the Lord, that being shut out from His face, because he did not seek to find joy in Him, he might be tormented beneath Him.” (4) -St. Gregory the Dialogist
