For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
This will be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
“Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
Does not calamity befall the unrighteous, and disaster the workers of iniquity?
Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man shall perish.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
And you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord did not hearken to your voice or give ear to you.
And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”