for the paths that they go in are crooked: they haste after vain things, and shall perish.

Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

“For it will hurl [thunderbolts of God’s wrath] at him unsparingly and without compassion;
He flees in haste from its power.

If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit,

Lo, a flood oppresseth -- he doth not haste, He is confident though Jordan Doth come forth unto his mouth.