What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

Thinkest thou it well done, to oppress me, to cast me off - being a work of thine hands - and to maintain the counsel of the ungodly?

He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.