Because you have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us; we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected.

None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment; they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.

Behold, the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, [formed] out of vanity.

Woe to them that deepen their counsel, and not by the Lord. Woe to them that take secret counsel, and whose works are in darkness, and they say, Who has seen us? And who shall know us, or what we do?

And you have said, What does the Mighty One know? Does He judge in the dark?

A cloud is His hiding place, and He shall not be seen; and He passes through the circle of heaven.

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He has turned away His face so as never to look.

They have set up for themselves an evil matter, they have given counsel to hide snares; they have said, Who shall see them?

And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

He that planted the ear, does He not hear? Or He that formed the eye, does not He perceive?

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Shall anyone hide himself in secret places, and I not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord.

And He said to me, You have seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do, each one of them in their secret chamber; because they have said, The Lord does not see; the Lord has forsaken the earth.

Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah has become exceedingly great: for the land is filled with many nations, and the city is filled with iniquity and uncleanness; because they have said, The Lord has forsaken the earth, The Lord looks not upon [it].

Woe [to them] that are wise in their own conceit, and knowing in their own sight.

And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God.

Have you gained power for yourself by your [own] knowledge or your [own] prudence, and [gathered] gold and silver in your treasures?

Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you have set your heart as the heart of God;

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the prudent I will annul."

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, God was well pleased, through the foolishness of our preaching, to save those that believe.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";