¹³ “This is what the wicked will receive from God;
    this is their inheritance from the Almighty.
¹⁴ They may have many children,
    but the children will die in war or starve to death.
¹⁵ Those who survive will die of a plague,
    and not even their widows will mourn them.

¹⁶ “Evil people may have piles of money
    and may store away mounds of clothing.
¹⁷ But the righteous will wear that clothing,
    and the innocent will divide that money.
¹⁸ The wicked build houses as fragile as a spider’s web,^[a]
    as flimsy as a shelter made of branches.
¹⁹ The wicked go to bed rich
    but wake to find that all their wealth is gone.
²⁰ Terror overwhelms them like a flood,
    and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
²¹ The east wind carries them away, and they are gone.
    It sweeps them away.
²² It whirls down on them without mercy.
    They struggle to flee from its power.
²³ But everyone jeers at them
    and mocks them.