17 “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
18 what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
19 (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
22 He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23 He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.