23. He wandereth about after lechem, saying, Where is it? He has da'as the Yom Choshech is near at hand for him.
24. Distress and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall seize him as a melech poised for battle.
25. For he stretcheth out his yad against El (G-d), and with insolence vaunts himself against Shaddai.
26. He charges against Him, with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his mogen (shield);
27. Though he covereth his panim with his fatness, and addeth fat on his flanks;
28. And he dwelleth in desolate towns, and in batim (houses) which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to crumble to rubble.
29. He shall not be osher, neither shall his substance continue; neither shall their possessions spread over ha'aretz.
30. He shall not escape from choshech; the flame shall wither his branches, and in the ruach of his mouth shall he perish.
31. Let not him that is deceived trust in shav (vanity); for shav shall be his recompense.
32. His Yom is not yet; then it is accomplished, and his branch shall not flourish.
33. He shall shake off his unripe grape like the gefen, and shall cast off his blossom like the zayit (olive tree).
34. For the Adat Chanef (congregation of hypocrites) shall be barren, and eish shall consume the ohalim of bribery.
35. They conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to evil, and their belly worketh mirmar (deceit).