2 “Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back for the sake of my inward excitement.
3 I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.
4 “Did you know this from of old, since the setting of the human being on earth,
5 that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless lasts only a moment?
6 Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,
7 he will perish forever like his dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of the night.