They are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way like all others and cut off as the tops of the grain.
His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it.
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
The clods of the valley will be sweet unto him; and everyone will follow him, as countless have gone before.
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked will come to nothing.”
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look diligently for his place, he will not be there.
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed by terrors!
that though the wicked spring up like grass and though all the workers of iniquity flourish, they will be destroyed forever:
For the sun rises with a burning heat and it withers the grass, and its flowers fall, and its beauty perishes. So will the rich man wither away in his ways.