The wicked become a ransom for the righteous, and the faithless are taken in the place of the upright.

Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.

I have received a distressing message: “The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!”

Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol’s; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.