^{5 Ref} That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

^{6 Ref} Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

^{7 Ref} Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

^{8 Ref} 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 Ref} The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

^{10 Ref} His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

^{11 Ref} His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

^{12 Ref} Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

^{13 Ref} Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

^{14 Ref} Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

^{15 Ref} He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

^{16 Ref} He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.