让我们继续来思想这情况：当诗人开始想到不敬虔的人的结局时，一切就都变得清晰了。他真正明白了这些人的境况，以致在这首诗余下的部分，诗人的语言不单显示他再没有妒忌他们，反而开始同情他们。事实上，我们也会遇到同样的情况，我们越考虑到未信的人最终的结局，就越发怜悯他们。

非基督徒的生命价值观是多么灰暗和可悲，特别是他们对生命终结的看法。马雷博士（Dr. Marrett）是牛津其中一间学院的院长，也是一名理性主义者，他在生命接近终结时写道：「除了寒冷的秋天以及更寒冷的冬天以外，我再没有甚么可期待了，不过我还是不能灰心。」威尔斯（H.G. Wells）曾经嘲笑基督教关于罪和救恩的教义，但在生命终结时却完全感到困惑和迷惘。他最后一本书的名称总结了他对事物的看法：《走头无路的心》（A Mind at the End of its Tether）。一位著名的无神论者在弥留之际，要求一名亲戚把一枝燃点着的蜡烛放在他手中，那位亲戚关心地问他：「为甚么要点着的蜡烛？」他的回答是：「因为我害怕进入外面的黑暗中。」

要是我们仍然妒忌那些不敬虔的人的生活方式，只专注于他们现在的成功以及他们看似美好的时光，却不想到他们的结局，这是多么愚蠢啊！我们永远都不该忘记，无论那些不敬虔者的生活方式多么风光，他们生命的终结都是非常的可怕。

We continue thinking about the fact that as soon as the psalmist considered the end of the ungodly, everything dropped into focus. Their true position became so clear to him that his language in the rest of the psalm indicates that he not only ceased to be envious of the ungodly but began to be sorry for them. Indeed, the same thing will happen to us too - the more we focus on the ultimate end of the unconverted, the more compassion we will feel for them.

How grim and cheerless is the non-Christian view of life, especially as it relates to the end. Dr Marrett, a rationalist and head of one of the colleges in Oxford, wrote, as he neared the end of his life: "I have nothing to look forward to but chill autumn and still chillier winter and yet I must somehow try not to lose heart." H.G. Wells, who ridiculed and scoffed at Christianity with its doctrine of sin and salvation, said at the end of his life that he was utterly baffled and bewildered. The title of his last book summed up his view of things: A Mind at the End of its Tether. When he was dying, a noted atheist asked one of his relatives for a lighted candle to be placed in his hand. "Why a lighted candle?" asked the concerned relative. "Because I am afraid to go out into the dark," was the reply.

How foolish to look enviously at the lifestyle of the ungodly, focusing only on their present successes and the marvellous time they seem to be having, without considering their end. We should never forget that no matter how glittering their lifestyle, the death of the ungodly is a terrible thing.