Quotes About Fate

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brotherís house,

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ëA boy is conceived.í

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

It is all the same, and so I say, ëHe destroys both the blameless and the wicked.í

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

He loosens the bonds placed by kings and fastens a belt around their waists.

He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them.

You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of Godís wrath.

This is the wicked manís portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”