24. Distress and anguish terrify him; [he knows] they shall prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
25. Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bids defiance and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26. Running stubbornly against Him with a thickly ornamented shield;
27. Because he has covered his face with his fat, adding layers of fat on his loins [giving himself up to animal pleasures],
28. And has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities and in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];