Psalms 73:4

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

‘These great animals, which are four, are four kings, who will arise out of the earth.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.