He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.