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⁴ Surely you know that from ancient times,
    when we humans were first placed on earth,
⁵     no wicked people have been happy for long.
⁶ They may grow great, towering to the sky,
    so great that their heads reach the clouds,
⁷     but they will be blown away like dust.
Those who used to know them
    will wonder where they have gone.
^8 (a)They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night,
    and never be seen again.
⁹ The wicked will disappear from the place where they used to live;
¹⁰     and their children will make good what they stole from the poor.
¹¹ Their bodies used to be young and vigorous,
    but soon they will turn to dust.^12-13 Evil tastes so good to them
    that they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavor.<
¹⁴ But in their stomachs the food turns bitter,
    as bitter as any poison could be.
¹⁵ The wicked vomit up the wealth they stole;
    God takes it back, even out of their stomachs.
¹⁶ What the evil people swallow is like poison;
    it kills them like the bite of a deadly snake.
¹⁷ They will not live to see rivers of olive oil^[a]
    or streams that flow with milk and honey.
¹⁸ They will have to give up all they have worked for;
    they will have no chance to enjoy their wealth,
¹⁹     because they oppressed and neglected the poor
    and seized houses someone else had built.
²⁰ Their greed is never satisfied.
²¹ When they eat, there is nothing left over,
    but now their prosperity comes to an end.
²² At the height of their success
    all the weight of misery will crush them.
²³ Let them eat all they want!
    God will punish them in fury and anger.
^24 (b)When they try to escape from an iron sword,
    a bronze bow will shoot them down.
²⁵ Arrows stick through their bodies;
    the shiny points drip with their blood,
    and terror grips their hearts.
²⁶ Everything they have saved is destroyed;
    a fire not lit by human hands
    burns them and all their family.
²⁷ Heaven reveals their sin,
    and the earth gives testimony against them.
²⁸ All their wealth will be destroyed
    in the flood of God's anger.

²⁹ This is the fate of wicked people,
    the fate that God assigns to them.