4 This I know from the beginning, since man was placed  
  upon  the earth, 

5 that the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of 
  the hypocrite but for a moment. 

6 If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch 
  the clouds: 

7 In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and 
  they that has seen him shall say: Where is he? 

8 As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he 
  shall pass as a vision of the night: 

9 The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, 
  neither shall his place any more behold him. 

10 His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands 
   shall render him his sorrow. 

11 His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, 
   and they shall sleep with him in the dust. 

12 For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide  
   it under his tongue. 

13 He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in 
   his throat. 

14 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of 
   asps within him. 

15 The riches which he hath swallowed; he shall vomit up, 
   and God shall draw them out of his belly. 

16 He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's 
   tongue  shall kill him. 

17 (Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of 
   honey and of butter.) 

18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall 
   not be consumed: according to the multitude of his 
   devices so also shall he suffer. 

19 Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath 
   violently taken away a house which he did not build. 

20 And yet his belly was not filled: and when he hath the 
   things he coveted, he shall not be able to possess them. 

21 There was nothing left of his meat, and therefore 
    nothing shall continue of his goods: 

22 When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he 
   shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. 

23 May his belly be filled, that God may send forth the 
   wrath of his indignation upon him, and rain down his war 
   upon him. 

24 He shall flee from weapons of iron, and shall fall upon 
  a bow of brass. 

25 The sword is drawn out, and cometh forth from its 
   scabbard, and glittereth in his bitterness: the 
   terrible ones shall go and come upon him. 

26 All darkness is hid in his secret places: a fire that is 
   not kindled shall devour him, he shall be afflicted when 
   left in his tabernacle. 

27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth 
   shall rise up against him. 

28 The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be 
   pulled down in the day of God's wrath.
 
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the 
   inheritance of his doings from the Lord.