When the wicked gain control, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.

A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.

Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;

What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach – yet his appetite is never satisfied!

Men bow down to them in homage, they lie flat on the ground in worship. Don’t spare them!

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned.

I looked and saw that there were no more people, and that all the birds in the sky had flown away.

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

The Lord says to Edom, “I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind.

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

(The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)

“Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominable practices

“Son of man, there were two women who were daughters of the same mother.

“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.

“Son of man, turn toward Sidon and prophesy against it.

You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.