They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

Then Hadadezer sent for Arameans from beyond the Euphrates River, and they came to Helam. Shobach, the general in command of Hadadezer’s army, led them.

Do not fear, wild animals! For the pastures of the wilderness are again green with grass. Indeed, the trees bear their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield to their fullest.

Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.