¹² While still growing and uncut,
    they wither more quickly than grass.^(A)
13 Such is the destiny^(B) of all who forget God;^(C)
    so perishes the hope of the godless.^(D)

³⁵ I have seen a wicked and ruthless man
    flourishing^(A) like a luxuriant native tree,
³⁶ but he soon passed away and was no more;
    though I looked for him, he could not be found.^(B)

⁷ that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.^(A)