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yet they will vanish forever,
    thrown away like their own dung.
Those who knew them will ask,
    ‘Where are they?’
They will fade like a dream and not be found.
    They will vanish like a vision in the night.
Those who once saw them will see them no more.
    Their families will never see them again.
10 Their children will beg from the poor,
    for they must give back their stolen riches.
11 Though they are young,
    their bones will lie in the dust.

12 “They enjoyed the sweet taste of wickedness,
    letting it melt under their tongue.
13 They savored it,
    holding it long in their mouths.
14 But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,
    a poisonous venom in their stomach.
15 They will vomit the wealth they swallowed.
    God won’t let them keep it down.

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he will perish forever,(A) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’(B)
Like a dream(C) he flies away,(D) no more to be found,
    banished(E) like a vision of the night.(F)
The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.(G)
10 His children(H) must make amends to the poor;
    his own hands must give back his wealth.(I)
11 The youthful vigor(J) that fills his bones(K)
    will lie with him in the dust.(L)

12 “Though evil(M) is sweet in his mouth
    and he hides it under his tongue,(N)
13 though he cannot bear to let it go
    and lets it linger in his mouth,(O)
14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;(P)
    it will become the venom of serpents(Q) within him.
15 He will spit out the riches(R) he swallowed;
    God will make his stomach vomit(S) them up.

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