¹³ This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

¹⁷ But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.

⁴⁷ A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

²⁷ And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;

²⁸ For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs: