16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. (A)All such boasting is evil.

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

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27 Do not boast about tomorrow,
    (A)for you do not know what a day may bring.

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“See the man who would not make
    God his refuge,
but (A)trusted in the abundance of his riches
    and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

14 Like (A)clouds and wind without rain
    is a man who (B)boasts of a gift he does not give.

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(A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    (B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’

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14 But if you have bitter (A)jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

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10 You felt secure in your wickedness;
    you said, “No one sees me”;
your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray,
and you said in your heart,
    (A)“I am, and there is no one besides me.”

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The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of David, when (A)Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

52 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
    The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

For who sees anything different in you? (A)What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

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You said, “I shall be (A)mistress forever,”
    so that you did not lay these things to heart
    or remember their end.

Now therefore hear this, (B)you lover of pleasures,
    (C)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
    (D)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(E)I shall not sit as a widow
    or know the loss of children”:

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