Bible Verses About Ambition

That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike--

As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where is he?'

As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

Their heart is : Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

Fear not, when one maketh wealth, When the honour of his house is abundant,

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

It cometh to the generation of his fathers, For ever they see not the light.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.

I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

Only--unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.