But the Lord does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.

May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”