Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.Instead, you ought to say,“ If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
Amon was twenty two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done.For he walked entirely in the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.So he abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
And I will say to myself,“ You have many goods stored up for many years to come; relax, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself!” ’But God said to him,‘ You fool! This very night your soul is demanded of you; and as for all that you have prepared, who will own it now?’