²³ But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.

²⁷ The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

⁶ You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

³² It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

¹⁷ Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

⁴ saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it."

⁵ He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

¹⁷ Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

²⁰ Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied.

¹¹ Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

¹² For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.

¹³ Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

² My God, I have trusted in you, Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.

¹⁵ He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

¹⁶ The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

⁵ Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

⁶ Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

⁹ Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

¹⁰ But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him therewith in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn't strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

²⁷ When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.