3 What you have just said makes fun of me. So I really have to reply to you.
4 "I'm sure you must know how things have always been. They've been that way ever since man was placed on this earth.
5 Those who are evil are happy for only a short time. The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.
6 Their pride might reach all the way up to the heavens. Their heads might touch the clouds.
7 But they will disappear forever, like the waste from their own bodies. Anyone who has seen them will say, 'Where did they go?'
8 Like a dream they will fly away. They will never be seen again. They will be driven away like visions in the night.
9 The eyes that saw them won't see them anymore. Even their own families won't remember them.