⁸ For what hope have the godless^(A) when they are cut off,
    when God takes away their life?^(B)

¹¹ Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
    are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
    and in the end they will prove to be fools.^(A)

⁶ “Surely everyone goes around^(A) like a mere phantom;^(B)
    in vain they rush about,^(C) heaping up wealth^(D)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.^(E)

¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver like dust^(A)
    and clothes like piles of clay,^(B)
17 what he lays up^(C) the righteous will wear,^(D)
    and the innocent will divide his silver.^(E)

⁵ Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
    He will snatch you up and pluck^(A) you from your tent;
    he will uproot^(B) you from the land of the living.^(C)
6 The righteous will see and fear;
    they will laugh^(D) at you, saying,
⁷ “Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold^(E)
but trusted in his great wealth^(F)
    and grew strong by destroying others!”