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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, and he perceiveth it not.

But his flesh hath pain for himself alone, and his soul mourneth for himself.

Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.

He wandereth abroad for bread,—where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:

He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;

For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.

He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.

He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.

He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

He that betrayeth friends for a prey—even the eyes of his children shall fail.