3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
4 Knowest thou [not] this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?
6 Though his excellence shall mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
7 [Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they who have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?
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