Ecclesiastes 10:8

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

He will flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow will strike him through.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

In those days Hezekiah was sick and dying. Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order; for you will die, and not live.’ ”

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it “Yahweh is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the fortified part of the king’s house, and burned the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up a cry or prayer for them or make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

“He who flees from the terror will fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit will be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

“If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded and struck Absalom, and killed him.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

He will suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue will kill him.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,