5. That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
6. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
7. Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9. The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
10. His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.
11. His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.
12. Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13. Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;
14. Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16. He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
17. He shall not look upon the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
18. That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; according to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.
19. For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.
20. Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.
21. There was nothing left that he devoured not; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.