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² "Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back
for the sake of^[b] my inward excitement.^[c]
3 I hear discipline that insults me,
and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
⁴ "Did you^[d] know this from of old,
since the setting of the human being on earth,
⁵ that the rejoicing of the wicked is short,^[e]
and the joy of the godless lasts only a moment?^[f]
6 Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven,
and his head reaches to the clouds,
⁷ he will perish forever like his dung;
those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?'
⁸ He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him,
and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
⁹ The eye that saw him will not see him again,^[g]
and his place will no longer behold him.
¹⁰ His children will seek favors from the poor,
and his hands will return his wealth.
¹¹ His bones were full of his vigor,
but^[h] it will lie down with him on^[i] the dust.
¹² "Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth,
and he hides it under his tongue,
¹³ though he spares it and does not let it go
and holds it back in the midst of his palate,
¹⁴ in his bowels his food is turned,
the venom of horned vipers is within him.^[j]
15 He swallows riches, but^[k] he vomits them^[l] up;
God drives them^[m] out from his stomach.
¹⁶ He will suck the poison of horned vipers;
the viper's tongue will kill him.
¹⁷ He will not enjoy the streams,^[n]
the torrents of honey and curds.
¹⁸ Returning the products of his toil, he will not swallow;^[o]
according to the profit of his trade, he will not enjoy,^[p]
19 for he has oppressed; he has abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house but^[q] did not build it.
²⁰ Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach,
he lets nothing escape that he desires.^[r]
21 There is nothing left after he has eaten;^[s]
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
²² In the fullness of his excess he will be in distress;^[t]
all of misery's power will come upon him.
²³ When his stomach fills up,^[u] God will send his burning anger^[v] upon him,
and he will let it rain down upon him^[w] as his food.
²⁴ "He will flee from an iron weapon,
but an arrow of bronze will pierce him.
²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out from his body,
and the glittering point comes from his gall-bladder;
terrors come upon him.
²⁶ Total darkness^[x] is hidden for his treasures;^[y]
an unfanned fire^[z] will devour him;
the remnant^[aa] will be consumed^[ab] in his tent.
²⁷ The heavens will reveal his guilt,
and the earth will rise up against him.
²⁸ The products of his house will be carried away^[ac]
like gushing waters^[ad] on the day of his wrath.
²⁹ This is a wicked human being's portion from God
and the inheritance of his decree from God."^[ae]