"He will not depart from darkness; a flame will dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he will pass away." The wicked person's fate is darkness, desiccation, and ultimate extinction. The imagery—dried branches, evaporation by divine breath—suggests that the wicked person is unmade. The breath that created now destroys, suggesting that creation and destruction are both divine prerogatives.

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