3. What you have just said makes fun of me. So I really have to reply to you.
4. "I'm sure you must know how things have always been. They've been that way ever since man was placed on this earth.
5. Those who are evil are happy for only a short time. The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.
6. Their pride might reach all the way up to the heavens. Their heads might touch the clouds.
7. But they will disappear forever, like the waste from their own bodies. Anyone who has seen them will say, 'Where did they go?'
8. Like a dream they will fly away. They will never be seen again. They will be driven away like visions in the night.
9. The eyes that saw them won't see them anymore. Even their own families won't remember them.
10. Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.
11. They might feel young and very strong. But they will soon lie down in the dust of their graves.
12. "Anything that is evil tastes sweet to them. They keep it under their tongues for a while.
13. They can't stand to let it go. So they hold it in their mouths.
14. But their food will turn sour in their stomachs. It will become like the poison of a serpent inside them.