2 “This is why my troubled thoughts bring me back –because of my feelings within me.
3 When I hear a reproof that dishonors me,then my understanding prompts me to answer.
4 “Surely you know that it has been from old,ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
5 that the elation of the wicked is brief,the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
6 Even though his stature reaches to the heavensand his head touches the clouds,
7 he will perish forever, like his own excrement;those who used to see him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found,and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.