"Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom."
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Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!