Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol; when the overflowing scourge shall have gone and passed through, it shall not come upon us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.

No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and was strong in his wickedness.

Surely the sons of men are a vapor; men are a lie; if they were to climb up into the scales, they are altogether lighter than vapor.

Woe to those who are profound to hide their counsel from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And, Who knows us?

And you say, What does the Mighty God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, and He walks above the circle of the heavens.

He has said in his heart, the Mighty God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it!

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

Yet they say, YAH does not see, nor does the God of Jacob perceive it.

He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?

No one has power over the spirit to restrain the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge from that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Jehovah. Do I not fill the heavens and earth? says Jehovah.

Then He said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, Jehovah does not see us, Jehovah has forsaken the land.

Then He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is full of perversity; for they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and understanding in their own sight!

Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas, yet you are a man, and not the Mighty God, though you set your heart as the heart of God

With your wisdom and your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.

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