They will not remain rich for long; nothing they own will last. Even their shadows will vanish,

Their steps were firm, but now they stumble; they fall---victims of their own advice.

How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,

Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,

So I came to regret that I had worked so hard.

Give her as much suffering and grief as the glory and luxury she gave herself. For she keeps telling herself: 'Here I sit, a queen! I am no widow, I will never know grief !'

Suddenly the Sabeans attacked and stole them all. They killed every one of your servants except me. I am the only one who escaped to tell you."

Before he had finished speaking, another servant came and said, "Three bands of Chaldean raiders attacked us, took away the camels, and killed all your servants except me. I am the only one who escaped to tell you."

God has handed me over to evil people.

The LORD sent armed bands of Babylonians, Syrians, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim to destroy Judah, as the LORD had said through his servants the prophets that he would do.

I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."

In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.