² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?

⁶ Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that 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.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

³⁶ But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

¹⁷ Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.

¹⁸ Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

¹⁹ How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶ In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

⁵ Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

¹¹ For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

²⁴ For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: