⁷ When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, And expectation of power comes to nothing.

²⁸ The prospect of the righteous is joy, But the hope of the wicked will perish.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

¹⁴ Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

⁹ The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'

¹⁰ You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."

⁴ His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

³² The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.

⁹ Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

¹⁹ I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

²⁰ "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'