2. “Truly, my thoughts make me respond, even because of my haste within me.
3. I have listened to the reproof which insults me, and the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.
4. You have known this of old, since man was placed on earth,
5. that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?
6. Although his pride mounts up to the heavens, and his head does reach to the clouds,
7. he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him say, ‘Where is he?’