Opening the chapter…
You proud man, you think that you are strong; you boast about the trouble that you make for others, but God faithfully protects people from you every day.
All during the day you plan to get rid of others; what you say is like a sharp blade, and you are always deceiving others.
You like doing what is evil more than you like doing what is good, and you like telling lies more than you like telling the truth.
You, the one who says things to deceive people, you like to say things that hurt people!
But God will get rid of you forever; he will grab you and drag you from your home and take you away from this world where people are alive.
When righteous people see that, they will be awestruck, and they will laugh at what happened to you, and say,
"Look what happened to the man who would not ask God to protect him; he trusted that his great wealth would save him; he grew more powerful by wickedly hurting other people."
But I am secure because I worship in God's temple; I am like a strong green olive tree. I trust in God, who faithfully loves us forever.
God, I will always thank you for everything you have done. I will wait patiently because you are so good, especially when I stand before your faithful people.
Source
Unlocked Dynamic Bible. Original work of the Unlocked Dynamic Bible in English available at https://unfoldingword.org/udb/. By the Door43 World Missions Community (Wycliffe Associates release v19-10); based on A Translation for Translators by Ellis W. Deibler, Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: Door43 WycliffeAssociates/en_udb release v19-10. Changes: reformatted for display (USFM to verses); no wording changed. Audio (including text-to-speech) and other adaptations are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Where a verse number appears twice in the source, the first copy is shown. Editorial rendering: in this app the divine name "Yahweh" is displayed and read aloud as "God" (and "Yahweh God" as "God"). The stored text and the imported source are unchanged; this is a display-layer substitution, not part of the translation.
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