⁵ “Indeed, ^(A)the light of the wicked is put out,
    and the flame of his fire does not shine.
⁶ The light is ^(B)dark in his tent,
    and his lamp above him is put out.
⁷ His strong steps are shortened,
    and his ^(C)own schemes throw him down.
⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet,
    and he walks on its mesh.
^9 (D)A trap seizes him by the heel;
    a snare lays hold of him.
¹⁰ A rope is hidden for him in the ground,
    a trap for him in the path.
^11 (E)Terrors frighten him on every side,
    and chase him at his heels.
¹² His strength is famished,
    and calamity is ^(F)ready for his stumbling.
¹³ It consumes the parts of his skin;
    ^(G)the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.
¹⁴ He is torn from the tent in which he trusted
    and is brought to ^(H)the king of terrors.

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!
²⁰ Like ^(D)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when ^(E)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

¹² “Though evil is sweet in his mouth,
    though he hides it ^(C)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 ^(D)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;
    ^(E)the tongue of a viper will kill him.
¹⁷ He will not look upon ^(F)the rivers,
    the streams flowing with ^(G)honey and ^(H)curds.
¹⁸ He will ^(I)give back the fruit of his toil
    and will not ^(J)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 ^(K)knew no ^(L)contentment in his belly,
    ^(M)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 ^(N)into his body.
^24 (O)He will flee from an iron weapon;
    ^(P)a bronze arrow will strike ^(Q)him through.
²⁵ It ^(R)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
    ^(S)the glittering point comes out of his ^(T)gallbladder;
    ^(U)terrors come upon him.
²⁶ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
    ^(V)a fire not fanned will devour him;
    what is left in his tent will be consumed.
^27 (W)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 (X)This is the wicked man's portion from God,
    ^(Y)the heritage decreed for him by God.”