² “·When will you stop these speeches [^LHow long before you stop these words]?
    ·Be sensible [or Reflect], and then we can talk [Prov. 15:28; 18:13; 29:20].
³ ·You think of [^LWhy do you consider/count] us as cattle,
    as ·if we are stupid [^Lstupid in your eyes/estimation].
⁴ You tear ·yourself [your life] to pieces in your anger.
    Should the earth be vacant ·just for [or because of] you?
    Should the rocks move from their places [14:18]?

⁵ “The lamp of the wicked will be put out,
    and the flame in their lamps will stop burning.
⁶ The light in their tents will grow dark,
    and the lamps ·by their sides [or above them] will go out.
⁷ Their ·strong steps [vigorous gait] will grow ·weak [cramped; restricted];
    ·they will fall into their own evil traps [or their own schemes/advice will throw them down].
⁸ Their feet will be caught in a net [Prov. 28:9]
    when they walk into ·its web [a snare].
⁹ A trap will catch them by the heel [Prov. 22:5]
    and [^La noose] hold them tight.
¹⁰ A ·trap for them [^Lrope] is hidden on the ground,
    right in their path.
¹¹ ·Terrible things [^LTerrors] startle them from every side
    and ·chase [or disperse] them at ·every step [^Ltheir feet].
¹² ·Hunger takes away their strength [or Calamity is hungry for them],
    and disaster is ·at their side [or prepared for them when they stumble].
¹³ Disease eats away ·parts of their skin [or their fleshy limbs];
    ·death [^Lthe firstborn of Death; ^Cdeath is personified] ·gnaws at [consumes] their ·arms and legs [^Llimbs].
¹⁴ They are torn from the ·safety [confidence] of their tents
    and ·dragged off to Death, the King of Terrors [^Lterrors march them off to their king].
¹⁵ ·Their tents are set on fire [or Nothing of theirs will remain in their tents],
    and sulfur is scattered over their ·homes [or pastures].
¹⁶ Their roots dry up below ground,
    and their branches die above ground [^Cthe wicked are like a dead tree].
¹⁷ People on earth will not remember them;
    their names will be forgotten in the land.
¹⁸ They will be driven from light into darkness
    and ·chased [driven] out of the world [^Cthey will die].
¹⁹ They have no children or descendants among their people,
    and no one will be left alive where they once lived.
²⁰ People ·of the west [or who come after] will be ·shocked [desolated] ·at what has happened to them [by their end/fate],
    and people ·of the east [or who came before] will be ·very frightened [seized with horror].
²¹ Surely this is ·what will happen to [^Lthe dwelling of] the wicked;
    such is the place of one who does not know God.”