But if you have bitter envy and contention in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. Maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.] i0 par Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The Mighty God is good daily.

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

A man boasting himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

And you said, I shall be a queen forever; so you did not lay these things to heart, nor remember the latter end of it.

Now therefore hear this, O voluptuous one, who lives securely; who says in her heart, I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge have perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else besides me.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You are already full. You are already rich. You have reigned as kings without us; and indeed I wish you truly did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

By however much she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously, by the same amount give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.