¹² Though you search for your enemies,
    you will not find them.^(A)
Those who wage war against you
    will be as nothing^(B) at all.

³⁵ I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
    flourishing^(A) like a luxuriant native tree,
³⁶ but he soon passed away and was no more;
    though I looked for him, he could not be found.^(B)

⁷ he will perish forever,^(A) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’^(B)
8 Like a dream^(C) he flies away,^(D) no more to be found,
    banished^(E) like a vision of the night.^(F)
9 The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.^(G)

¹⁴ In the evening, sudden^(A) terror!^(B)
    Before the morning, they are gone!^(C)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.