21 At that time God, who sees all things, who’s beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable, and scourged the man who was greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. 22 Shaking him back and forth as a reed is shaken with the wind, he threw him down on the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralysed, and by a righteous judgement deprived of the ability to speak. 23 His friends and bodyguards, seeing the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he’d die, speedily removed him. 24 When in course of time he’d come to himself, this severe punishment caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings.