For what is the allotment of God from above, And the inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Surely even now my witness is in heaven, And my evidence is on high.
This is the portion from God for a wicked man, The heritage appointed to him by God.”
“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them, The sorrows God distributes in His anger?
“Dominion and fear belong to Him; He makes peace in His high places.
“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, received from the Almighty:
But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”
Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.