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;
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 themthat they keep some in their mouths to enjoy its flavour.
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.