¹³ This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah

²⁰ But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

¹⁷ But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

⁴⁷ Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

⁴⁸ So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build `their tombs'.

²⁷ And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house;

²⁸ for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness: