1-2. Job, you upset me. Now I'm impatient to answer.
3. What you have said is an insult,but I know how to reply to you.
4. Surely you know that from ancient times,when human beings 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 themwill wonder where they have gone.
8. 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;