Listen now, you rich, weep and howl at your miseries which are coming upon you!

And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was asphalt.

And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Come, let Us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbor.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. And behold, this is also vanity.

And now I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard; I will take away its hedge, and it shall be for a spoil; and I will pull down its walls, and it shall be [left] to be trodden down.

Boast not of tomorrow, for you do not know what the next day shall bring forth.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And he reasoned within himself, saying, 'What shall I do, because I have nowhere to gather my crops?'

And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid away for many years; relax; eat, drink, and be merry."'

And the people shall be as the priest, and the servant as the lord, and the maid as the mistress; the buyer shall be as the seller, the lender as the borrower, and the debtor as his creditor.

Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his [will].

The time has come, behold the day: let not the buyer rejoice, and let not the seller mourn.

and those weeping as though not weeping, and those rejoicing as though not rejoicing, and those buying as though not possessing,