For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.*
*How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
*Dominion and fear are with him. He makes shalom in his high places.
*This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into She'ol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.