17. For the ungodly shall see a wise man’s end, And shall not understand what the Lord purposed concerning him, And for what he safely kept him:—
18. They shall see, and they shall despise; But them the Lord shall laugh to scorn. And after this they shall become a dishonored carcase, And a reproach among the dead for ever:
19. Because he shall dash them speechless to the ground, And shall shake them from the foundations, And they shall lie utterly waste, and they shall be in anguish, And their memory shall perish.
20. They shall come, when their sins are reckoned up, with coward fear; And their lawless deeds shall convict them to their face.