23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:
24. Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:
25. Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
26. He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27. Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks;
28. And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.
30. He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31. Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33. He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34. For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.