5. the triumph of the wicked has been short livedand the joy of the godless has been only temporary?
6. Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavensand their heads touch the clouds,
7. yet they will vanish forever,thrown away like their own dung.Those who knew them will ask,‘Where are they?’
8. They will fade like a dream and not be found.They will vanish like a vision in the night.
9. Those who once saw them will see them no more.Their families will never see them again.
10. Their children will beg from the poor,for they must give back their stolen riches.
11. Though they are young,their bones will lie in the dust.
12. “They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness,letting it melt under their tongue.
13. They savored it,holding it long in their mouths.
14. But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,a poisonous venom in their stomach.
15. They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.God won’t let them keep it down.
16. They will suck the poison of cobras.The viper will kill them.
17. They will never again enjoy streams of olive oilor rivers of milk and honey.
18. They will give back everything they worked for.Their wealth will bring them no joy.
19. For they oppressed the poor and left them destitute.They foreclosed on their homes.
20. They were always greedy and never satisfied.Nothing remains of all the things they dreamed about.
21. Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves.Therefore, their prosperity will not endure.
22. “In the midst of plenty, they will run into troubleand be overcome by misery.