2Sa 23:6-7, Isa 9:18, Jer 6:28, Mic 7:4 | ESV | STEP | But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away , for they cannot be taken with the hand ;

2 Samuel 23:6-7

6 But worthless men ^{▼▼Hebrew worthlessness} are all like thorns that are thrown away,
for they cannot be taken with the hand;
7 but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire.” ^{▼▼Hebrew consumed with fire in the sitting}

Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^ca fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 6:28

28 ^dThey are all stubbornly rebellious,
^egoing about with slanders;
they are ^fbronze and iron;
all of them act corruptly.

Micah 7:4

4 The best of them is ^glike a brier,
the most upright of them a thorn hedge.
The day of ^hyour watchmen, of your punishment, has come;
ⁱnow their confusion is at hand.