I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.

我见过恶人大有势力，好像一棵青翠树在本土生发。

我见过恶人大有势力，高耸如本地青翠的树木。

我见过恶人大有势力，高耸如本地青翠的树木。

我见过邪恶残暴之人，乍看如葱茏的黎巴嫩香柏树，

我曾看见强暴的恶人兴旺，像树木在本土茂盛。

我曾看到恶人的强横，像本地青翠的树那样蔓延；

我見過惡人大有勢力，好像一棵青翠樹在本土生發。

我見過惡人大有勢力，高聳如本地青翠的樹木。

我見過惡人大有勢力，高聳如本地青翠的樹木。

我見過邪惡殘暴之人，乍看如蔥蘢的黎巴嫩香柏樹，

我曾看見強暴的惡人興旺，像樹木在本土茂盛。

我見過惡人強橫可怖，挺然高聳、像茂盛的香柏樹。

我曾看到惡人的強橫，像本地青翠的樹那樣蔓延；

我見惡人勢盛、張大如青葱之樹、在其本土兮、

我見惡者強暴、蔓衍葱蘢、若茂樹兮、

我曾見強暴之惡人興旺、如根深葉茂之大樹、

曾見惡勢張。葱翠如春林。

I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,

I saw a mean and sinful person. He was doing well, like a green tree in its own land.

I have seen wicked and ruthless people flourishing like a tree in its native soil.

I have seen a wicked, violent person well-rooted, like a flourishing native tree.

I have seen a wicked, violent person Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

I have seen a wicked, violent man well-rooted like a flourishing native tree.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

I have seen ruthless evil men growing in influence, like a green tree grows in its native soil.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.They say to God,‘ Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.“ How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying,‘ I have never seen you.’Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you:‘ Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled under foot.

All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.“ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.And they say,“ How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

“ Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.“ This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth,whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived—it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying,‘ Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,and the king answered and said,“ Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven,“ O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.