4“Don’t you realize that from the beginning of time,
ever since people were first placed on the earth,
5the triumph of the wicked has been short lived
and the joy of the godless has been only temporary? 6Though the pride of the godless reaches to the heavens
and their heads touch the clouds, 7yet they will vanish forever,
thrown away like their own dung.
Those who knew them will ask,
‘Where are they?’
