For what is the expectancy of the defiled one, when He does cut off, when Eloah takes away his life?
But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!”
in whose hand is the life of all that live, and the breath of all mankind?
He also is my deliverance, for a defiled one does not come before Him.
For the company of the defiled ones is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
that the singing of the wrong is short-lived, and the joy of the defiled one is but for a moment?
Let my enemy be like the wrongdoer, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.
Is it not calamity to the perverse, and strangeness to the workers of wickedness?
So are the paths of all who forget Ě
“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and is himself destroyed or lost?
“And we know that Elohim does not hear sinners. But if anyone fears Elohim and does His desire, He hears him.
“And you returned and wept before יהוה, but יהוה would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
“And you shall cry out in that day because of your sovereign whom you have chosen for yourselves, but יהוה is not going to answer you in that day.”