and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king.

I have seen myself, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly destroyed,

"Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches?

I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all."

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Even so goeth it with all them that forget God: and even thus also shall the hypocrite's hope come to naught.

All fowls of the air made their nests in his branches, under his boughs gendered all these beasts of the field, and under his shadow dwelt all people.

As for the tree that thou sawest which was so great and mighty, whose height reached unto the heaven, and his breadth into all the world;

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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

But how should so worshipful and glorious a city be forsaken?