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"Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth And he hides it under his tongue,

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

Though he desires it and will not let it go, But holds it in his mouth,

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Yet his food in his stomach is changed To the venom of cobras within him.

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

"He swallows riches, But will vomit them up; God will expel them from his belly.

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

"He sucks the poison of cobras; The viper's tongue kills him.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

"He does not look at the streams, The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

"He returns the product of his labor And cannot swallow it; As to the riches of his trading, He cannot even enjoy them.

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

"For he has oppressed and neglected the poor; He has seized a house which he has not built.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;