⁸ For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
^9 (A)For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

^12 (A)There is a way that seems right to a man,
    but ^(B)its end is the way to death.^[a]