7. he will perish forever, like his own excrement;those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8. Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found,and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.
9. People who had seen him will not see him again,and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
10. His sons must recompense the poor;his own hands must return his wealth.
11. His bones were full of his youthful vigor,but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
12. “If evil is sweet in his mouthand he hides it under his tongue,
13. if he retains it for himselfand does not let it go,and holds it fast in his mouth,
14. his food is turned sour in his stomach;it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
15. The wealth that he consumed he vomits up,God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
16. He sucks the poison of serpents;the fangs of a viper kill him.
17. He will not look on the streams,the rivers, which are the torrentsof honey and butter.
18. He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it;he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
19. For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them;he has seized a house which he did not build.
20. For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;he does not let anything he desires escape.
21. “Nothing is left for him to devour;that is why his prosperity does not last.
22. In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him.the full force of misery will come upon him.
23. “While he is filling his belly,God sends his burning anger against him,and rains down his blows upon him.