⁹ Those who once saw them will see them no more.
    Their families will never see them again.

¹⁸ But when it is uprooted,
    it’s as though it never existed!

³⁶ But when I looked again, they were gone!
    Though I searched for them, I could not find them!

¹⁰ Soon the wicked will disappear.
    Though you look for them, they will be gone.

⁷ yet they will vanish forever,
    thrown away like their own dung.
Those who knew them will ask,
    ‘Where are they?’

¹⁵ Our days on earth are like grass;
    like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
¹⁶ The wind blows, and we are gone—
    as though we had never been here.

³ As long as I live,
    while I have breath from God,