Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.
Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.”
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