They compassed me about as bees [do] a honeycomb, and they burst into flame as fire among thorns; but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

As the sound of thorns under a caldron, so is the laughter of fools. This is also vanity.

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

His ways are profane at all times; Your judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in You, O Lord.

Surely You have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

But the mirth of the ungodly is a signal downfall, and the joy of transgressors is destruction:

For when he shall seem to be established, then he shall utterly perish, and those that knew him shall say, Where is he?

The eye has looked upon him, but shall not [see him] again; and his place shall no longer perceive him.

His bones have been filled with the [vigor of] his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.

though he will not spare it, and will not leave it, but will keep it in the midst of his throat:

[His] wealth unjustly collected shall be vomited up; a messenger of [wrath] shall drag him out of his house.

Let him not see the milk of the pastures, nor the supplies of honey and butter.

For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men, and he has plundered a house, though he built it not.

There is nothing remaining of his provisions, therefore his goods shall not flourish.

If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let Him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.

And let the heavens reveal his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him.

This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of his goods [appointed him] by the all-seeing [God].

yea when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.

When the storm passes by, the ungodly vanishes away; but the righteous turns aside and escapes forever.

The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently; and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.

For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground; He has blown upon them, and they have withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

Behold, [there is] an earthquake from the Lord, and anger proceeds to a convulsion, it shall come violently upon the ungodly.

But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.