gSee Job 39:19-25
Proverbs 24:23
More Sayings of the Wise
23These also are sayings of athe wise.bPartiality in judging is not good.
Isaiah 65:2
2 cI spread out my hands all the dayto a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;
Jeremiah 6:16
16 Thus says the Lord:“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for dthe ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
eand find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 8:6
6 fI have paid attention and listened,but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
glike a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Jeremiah 9:2-9
2 ▼▼Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Oh that I had in the deserta travelers’ lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all iadulterers,
a company of jtreacherous men.
3 kThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
in the land;for they proceed from evil to evil,
mand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 nLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every obrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor pgoes about as a slanderer.
5Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
6Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
qthey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Behold, rI will refine them and stest them,
for what else can I do, tbecause of my people?
8 uTheir tongue is a deadly arrow;
vit speaks deceitfully;
with his mouth weach speaks peace to his neighbor,
but in his heart xhe plans an ambush for him.
9 yShall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord,
and shall I not avenge myself
on a nation such as this?
Micah 6:8
8He has told you, O man, what is good;and zwhat does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness, ▼
▼Or steadfast love
and to abwalk humbly with your God?
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