• Futility of Boastful Wickedness.

  • 1 Why do you boast in evil, you mighty man? The faithfulness of God endures all day long.
  • 2 Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
  • 3 You love evil more than good, Lies more than speaking what is right. Selah
  • 4 You love all words that devour, You deceitful tongue.
  • 5 But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
  • 6 The righteous will see and fear, And they will laugh at him, saying,
  • 7 “Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge, But trusted in the abundance of his riches And was strong in his evil desire.”
  • 8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the faithfulness of God forever and ever.
  • 9 I will praise You forever, because You have done it, And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.