3. The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
4. This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
5. that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
6. If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7. in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: "Where is he?"
8. Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.
9. The eyes that had seen him, will not see him; no longer will his own place admire him.
10. His sons will be worn away by poverty, and his own hands will deliver his grief to him.
11. His bones will be filled with the vices of his youth, and they will sleep with him in the dust.
12. For, when evil will be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.
13. He will permit it, and not abandon it, and he will conceal it in his throat.
14. His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
15. The riches that he devours, he will vomit up, and from his stomach God will draw them out.
16. He will suck the head of snakes, and the tongue of the viper will kill him.
17. (May he never see the streams of the river, the torrents of honey and butter.)