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Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung; they that have seen him shall say: 'Where is he?'

The eye which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

His children shall appease the poor, and his hands shall restore his wealth.

His bones are full of his youth, but it shall lie down with him in the dust.

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

Though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

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

Because he knew no quietness within him, in his greed he suffered nought to escape,

There was nothing left that he devoured not--therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; the hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

It shall be for the filling of his belly; He shall cast the fierceness of His wrath upon him, and shall cause it to rain upon him into his flesh.

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

All darkness is laid up for his treasures;

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

The increase of his house shall depart, his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!'--let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.