¹⁶ But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

⁶ Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

¹⁰ For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

¹ Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

¹⁴ `As' clouds and wind without rain, `So is' he that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.

⁷ Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

¹ Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God `endureth' continually.

⁷ How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

⁷ For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

⁸ Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.

⁸ Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: