^35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like ^(B)a green laurel tree.^[a]
36 But he passed away,^[b] and behold, ^(C)he was no more;
    though I sought him, he could not be found.

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.

^13 (A)“This is the portion of a wicked man with God,
    and the heritage that ^(B)oppressors receive from the Almighty:
¹⁴ If his ^(C)children are multiplied, it is for ^(D)the sword,
    and his descendants have not enough bread.
¹⁵ Those who survive him the pestilence buries,
    and his ^(E)widows do not weep.
¹⁶ Though he ^(F)heap up silver like dust,
    and pile up clothing like clay,
¹⁷ he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
    and ^(G)the innocent will divide the silver.
¹⁸ He builds his ^(H)house like a moth's,
    like ^(I)a booth that ^(J)a watchman makes.
¹⁹ He goes to bed rich, but will ^(K)do so no more;
    he opens his eyes, and ^(L)his wealth is gone.
^20 (M)Terrors overtake him like ^(N)a flood;
    in the night a whirlwind ^(O)carries him off.
^21 (P)The east wind lifts him up and he is gone;
    it ^(Q)sweeps him out of his place.
²² It^[a] hurls at him ^(R)without pity;
    he flees from its^[b] power in headlong flight.
²³ It ^(S)claps its hands at him
    and ^(T)hisses at him from its place.