¹⁸ Truly you set them in ^(A)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
¹⁹ How they are destroyed ^(B)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by ^(C)terrors!

¹² “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
    though he hides it ^(J)under his tongue,
¹³ though he is loath to let it go
    and holds it in his mouth,
¹⁴ yet his food is turned in his stomach;
    it is the venom of ^(K)cobras within him.
¹⁵ He swallows down riches and vomits them up again;
    God casts them out of his belly.
¹⁶ He will suck the poison of cobras;
    ^(L)the tongue of a viper will kill him.
¹⁷ He will not look upon ^(M)the rivers,
    the streams flowing with ^(N)honey and ^(O)curds.
¹⁸ He will ^(P)give back the fruit of his toil
    and will not ^(Q)swallow it down;
from the profit of his trading
    he will get no enjoyment.
¹⁹ For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
    he has seized a house that he did not build.

²⁰ “Because he ^(R)knew no ^(S)contentment in his belly,
    ^(T)he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
²¹ There was nothing left after he had eaten;
    therefore his prosperity will not endure.
²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
    the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
²³ To fill his belly to the full,
    God^[a] will send his burning anger against him
    and rain it upon him ^(U)into his body.
^24 (V)He will flee from an iron weapon;
    ^(W)a bronze arrow will strike ^(X)him through.
²⁵ It ^(Y)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
    ^(Z)the glittering point comes out of his ^(AA)gallbladder;
    ^(AB)terrors come upon him.
²⁶ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
    ^(AC)a fire not fanned will devour him;
    what is left in his tent will be consumed.
^27 (AD)The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
    and the earth will rise up against him.
²⁸ The possessions of his house will be carried away,
    dragged off in the day of God's^[b] wrath.
^29 (AE)This is the wicked man's portion from God,
    ^(AF)the heritage decreed for him by God.”