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⁴ Don’t you know that ever since antiquity,
from the time a human was placed on earth,⁵ the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?^(C1)6 Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,^(C1)7 he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know^(F1) him will ask, “Where is he?” ^(C1)8 He will fly away like a dream and never be found;
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.^(C1)9 The eye that saw him will see him no more,^(C1)
and his household will no longer see him.^(C2)10 His children will beg from^(F1) the poor,
for his own hands must give back his wealth.¹¹ His frame may be full of youthful vigor,
but it will lie down with him in dust.^(C1)

¹² Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth
and he conceals it under his tongue,¹³ though he cherishes it and will not let it go
but keeps it in his mouth,^(C1)14 yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.¹⁵ He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;
God will force it from his stomach.¹⁶ He will suck the poison of cobras;
a viper’s fangs^(F1) will kill him.^(C1)17 He will not enjoy the streams,
the rivers flowing with honey and curds.^(C1)18 He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.¹⁹ For he oppressed and abandoned the poor;
he seized a house he did not build.^(C1)

²⁰ Because his appetite is never satisfied,^(F1)
he does not let anything he desires escape.²¹ Nothing is left for him to consume;^(C1)
therefore, his prosperity will not last.²² At the height of his success^(F1) distress will come to him;^(C1)
the full weight of misery^(F2) will crush him.²³ When he fills his stomach,
God will send his burning anger against him,
raining^(C1) it down on him while he is eating.^(F1)24 If he flees from an iron weapon,
an arrow from a bronze bow will pierce him.²⁵ He pulls it out of his back,
the flashing tip out of his liver.^(F1)
Terrors come over him.^(C1)26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.
A fire unfanned by human hands will consume^(C1) him;
it will feed on what is left in his tent.²⁷ The heavens will expose his iniquity,^(C1)
and the earth will rise up against him.^(C2)28 The possessions in his house will be removed,
flowing away on the day of God’s anger.²⁹ This is the wicked person’s lot^(C1) from God,
the inheritance God ordained for him.