2 In response, various thoughts succeed one another in me, and my mind moves quickly through different ideas.
3 The teaching you use to admonish me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding will respond for me.
4 This, I know, is from the beginning, from the time that man was set over the earth:
5 that the praise of the impious shall be short, and the joy of the hypocrite lasts only a moment.
6 If his pride ascends even towards the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 in the end, he will be destroyed like a trash heap, and those who had seen him will say: "Where is he?"
8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.