²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fat,
    and gathered fat upon his loins,
²⁸ and has lived in desolate cities,
    in houses which no man should inhabit,
    which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
²⁹ he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
    nor will he strike root in the earth;^[a]