I will also ask you one thing; and answer me: The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
As we know, “the baptism of John” speaks of the LORD unknown at His coming (now at the ends of the earth), preaching the repentance spoken of by Isaiah in Isaiah 40.
Isaiah 40
1 Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.
2 Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem [leading them into peace that flows from His teaching giving understanding], and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she has received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice [of the LORD] said, “Cry.” And he [His messenger] said, “What shall I cry?” [and the LORD answered] “All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows [by the word of God moves] upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get you up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
21 Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they [the princes and judges of the earth] shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and [as the flower and grass] they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
When verse 23 above speaks of the “circle” of the earth, it’s from the three times used Hebrew word chuwg (2329), which is from the once used identical word (chuwg – 2328). In exploring (diligently searching) these words, the LORD (leading us) reveals Himself and the circle (scope) of His work in the earth.
Before the title, from Luke 20:3 & 4, the powers that be asked the LORD, “by what authority do you these things? or who is he that gave you this authority?” The following passages, where the words (chuwg) appear, answer that question.
Job 26
2 How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength? [as the LORD has]
3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is? [as the LORD has]
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you? [as the LORD’s Spirit has come]
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters [the dead are held by the waters under heaven, the word of men separated from the words of God above], and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell [the words of men that create it] is naked before him, and destruction [caused by their words] has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north [the secret place of darkness – the ignorance produced by following the words and ways of ignorant men] over the empty [worthless, tohuw, making the earth “confused” and “without form”] place, and hangs the earth upon nothing [showing it to be in the void, without foundation].
8 He binds up the waters [closes His word] in his thick clouds [where understanding is held after it left the earth]; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He holds back the face [paniym – presence] of his throne, and spread [parches – the expanse] his cloud upon it [from His throne comes His exposition – from the firmament which He calls heaven].
10 He has compassed [chuwg] the waters with bounds [choq – for an appointed time], until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divides the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smites through the proud.
13 By his spirit [working unknown] he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent [leviathan {rivers} through which the words and ideas flow to humanity].
14 Lo, these are parts of his [the LORD’s] ways [by which He is known]: but how little a portion is heard of him [but no man speaks of Him openly, for fear of those who’ve replaced Him and sit in His place]? but the thunder of His power [His voice of truth and light, which is as a foreign language in the earth that only hears words polluted by lies] who can understand?
We know the “crooked serpent” is leviathan, from the word bariyach, rendered “crooked,” only appearing here in Job 26:13, and Isaiah 27:1 & 43:14.
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked [bariyach] serpent; and he shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into hell and holds it therein – or the crocodile, death lurking below the surface of these men’s words] that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing you unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns [misleaders] against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf [men as idols in God’s place] feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off [the fruit] from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the communists among us, in power], and the outcasts in the land of Egypt [under the hand of oppression – under a Pharaoh who doesn’t know Joseph], and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
In Isaiah 43:14, bariyach is rendered “nobles,” the crookedness of Babylon (confusion) brought down, and the cry of the Chaldeans (those using their words manipulate and control) carried in ships by their waters (the words and ways of their institutions of church and state). This occurs as the LORD declares His presence among us, working these saving works, exposing the wicked that rule the world, and bringing them down from their seats of power.
Isaiah 43
1 But now thus says the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters [from death into life], I will be with you; and through the [crooked] rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire [of hell], you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
3 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt [the oppressors] for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba [those whose drink is darkness] is for you.
4 Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I have loved you: therefore will I give men for you, and people for your life.
5 Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west;
6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
10 You are my witnesses, says the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says the LORD, that I am God.
13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
14 Thus says the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles [bariyach – the crooked], and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships [from their corrupt institution].
15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
16 Thus says the LORD, which makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters [this word of His power];
17 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.
18 Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers [this word] in the desert.
20 The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons [those who devour with their mouths] and the owls [who hunt souls in the darkness]: because I give waters [this word of God] in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
22 But you have not called upon me, O Jacob [God’s people still unknowingly wrestling with Him]; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
23 You have not brought me the small cattle of your burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember your sins.
26 Put me in remembrance [see, understand, my ways, and know me for the works’ sake]: let us plead together: declare you, that you mayest be justified.
27 Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
28 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Isaiah 44
1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
2 Thus says the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, which will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your offspring:
4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
5 One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
6 Thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them.
8 Fear you not, neither be afraid: have not I told you from that time, and have declared it? you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
9 They that make a graven image [the idols they’ve made] are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
10 Who has formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
11 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed [when they realize they have worshiped idols they’ve created and put in God’s place]: and the workmen, they are of men [and not of God]: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
As we’ve seen in previous posts, in the context of what brings darkness, the Hebrew word levyathan (leviathan) is in Job 3:8 rendered “their mourning.” There it tells of those who curse the day, the light (understanding), who are ready to raise up (leviathan) their mourning. The following verse then tells of the stars becoming dark, and as they are looking for light (understanding) they are unable to find it (because of the mixing of truth and lies in the rivers).
As we know, what was about to be raised up was Job’s three friends, accusing him, doing the work of Satan, and by it drawn out into plain sight and now seen by all the world. [Know what I mean Mitt?]
Job 3
1 After this opened Job [hated by the world] his mouth, and cursed his day [by silence allowing understanding to become corrupted, and only in His troubles does he speak and search for understanding].
2 And Job spoke, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4 Let that day be darkness [covered in ignorance]; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light [understanding] shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud [where understanding is held] dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning [leviathan – the rivers of ignorance, mixed words, that will flow from his three friends].
9 Let the stars [his friends] of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day [which they have not seen: the coming of the son of man, as the light shining from the east unto the west, upon all who come out of darkness]:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb [who taught wisdom and knowledge, giving understanding], nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb [in the belly of the earth]? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counselors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light [understanding].
17 There [in ignorance] the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20 Wherefore is light [understanding] given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21 Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for [God’s] hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light [understanding] given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in [by the ignorant in hell]?
24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roaring is poured out like the waters.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me [great tribulation].
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
The LORD then again, in Job 41:1, speaks of leviathan, saying He has drawn him out, not only so we would see him, but also so he would see himself, and be raised up again for the work God has intended him. It is in this same light we read Isaiah 27.
Job 41
1 Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
2 Can you put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
3 Will he make many supplications unto you? will he speak soft words unto you?
4 Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you bind him for your maidens?
6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
8 Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
One of the other times chuwg appears is in Job 22:14, rendered “circuit,” as Eliphaz the Temanite (those whose god is their wealth, who are among the so-called wise men of the world, like Mitt) is accusing Job (God’s people, hated by the world) and in doing, condemning himself.
Job 22
5 Is not your wickedness great [Mitt]? and your iniquities infinite [aren’t your accusations returned upon your own head]?
6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for naught, and stripped the naked of their clothing [shaming God’s hated people before the world].
7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withholden bread from the hungry.
8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt in it.
9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles you;
11 Or darkness [ignorance], that you can not see [the LORD who is always present]; and abundance of waters [His word] cover you.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And [and because you think God isn’t present and working] you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud [when all understanding has left the earth]?
14 Thick clouds [man’s ignorance] a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circuit [chuwg] of heaven [His word in the circuit of understanding as it leaves and returns; when men lose sight of Him, and then see Him again].
15 Have you marked the old way [of the Ancient of day] which wicked men have trodden [under their feet, disregarding them as worthless]?
16 Which [wicked men] were cut down out of time, whose foundation [elements] was overflown with a flood:
17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.
21 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.
22 Receive, I pray you, the law from his [my] mouth, and lay up his [God’s] words in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tabernacles.
24 Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25 Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.
26 For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.
27 You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto you: and the light [His understanding] shall shine upon your ways.
29 When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up [of God’s anointed]; and he shall save the humble person.
30 He shall deliver the island [the dry places that hear this word of God] of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of your hands.
The final time chuwg appears it’s in Proverbs 8:27, telling us the circuit is upon the face of the deep, meaning, as above, it’s the understanding that leaves and returns to the earth, as the LORD’s presence is known, unknown, and again returns to our sight. (John 16:17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he said unto us, “A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?”) This is the wisdom that is Ancient of days, existing before the earth, and will exist after it’s gone. “The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
Proverbs 8
1 Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass [chuwg – the circuit of understanding] upon the face [presence – of deep understanding] of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Psalms 102
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
10 Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.
12 But you, O LORD, shall endure forever; and your remembrance unto all generations.
13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.
15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.
16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
18 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before you.
Psalms 49
1 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world:
2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever:)
9 That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.
10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man being in honor abides not: he is like the beasts that perish.
13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approves their sayings. Selah.
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave [Sheol – Hell]; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave [Sheol – Hell] from their dwelling.
15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave [Sheol – Hell]: for he shall receive me. Selah.
16 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.
19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light [understanding].
20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, is like the beasts that perish.
