⁷ that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.^(A)

⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.^(B)

² They spring up like flowers^(A) and wither away;^(B)
    like fleeting shadows,^(C) they do not endure.^(D)

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,

¹⁷ till I entered the sanctuary^(A) of God;
    then I understood their final destiny.^(B)

¹⁸ Surely you place them on slippery ground;^(C)
    you cast them down to ruin.^(D)
19 How suddenly^(E) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away^(F) by terrors!
²⁰ They are like a dream^(G) when one awakes;^(H)
    when you arise, Lord,
    you will despise them as fantasies.^(I)

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)

⁵ that the mirth of the wicked^(A) is brief,
    the joy of the godless^(B) lasts but a moment.^(C)
6 Though the pride^(D) of the godless person reaches to the heavens^(E)
    and his head touches the clouds,^(F)
7 he will perish forever,^(G) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’^(H)
8 Like a dream^(I) he flies away,^(J) no more to be found,
    banished^(K) like a vision of the night.^(L)
9 The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.^(M)