²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

²³ But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

⁷ Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

⁹ Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

⁴ He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

⁶ Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

12 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.