Be careful that no one entices you with riches; do not let a large bribe turn you aside.

Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.

The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

And surely, he drew you from the mouth of distress, to a wide place, unrestricted, and to the comfort of your table filled with rich food.

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.