20:3. The doctrine with which thou reprovest me, I will hear, and the spirit of my understanding shall answer for me.
20:4. This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,
20:5. That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.
20:6. If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:
20:7. In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?
20:8. As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:
20:9. The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.
20:10. His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.
20:11. His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.
20:12. For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.