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The eye which saw him shall [see him] not again; and his place beholdeth him no more.

His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

His bones were full of his youthful strength; but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth [and] he hide it under his tongue,

[Though] he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,

His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.

Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.

It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.

He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?

+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.

For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;