4 Do you not know that it has been from old, since mankind was put on earth,
5 that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
6 Though his pride reaches to the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
7 he perishes forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’
8 Like a dream, he flies away and they cannot find him; like a vision of the night, he is chased away.
9 The eye that saw him will not see him again; his place will look on him no more.
10 His children must recompense the poor; his own hands must give back his wealth.