A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over