¹³ You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, For you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

⁸ According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

⁷ Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

⁸ For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

¹⁶ There is no king saved by the multitude of a host. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

⁷ For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

⁸ He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

¹² Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, And the house of Israel with deceit; And Judah still us unruly with God, And is unfaithful to the Holy One.

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

¹¹ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

⁵ A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

²⁰ A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue; Those who love it will eat its fruit.

¹⁹ Truth's lips will be established forever, But a lying tongue is only momentary.

³¹ Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

¹⁰ Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.

⁷ "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness."