Ecclesiastes 4:13

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

Amon his son, and Josiah his son.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son, but he who sleeps during the harvest is a son who causes shame.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Yahweh’s word came to him in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Be careful to see my face no more; for in the day you see my face you shall die!”

Please come now therefore, and curse this people for me; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, “See now, the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth. Please let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak good.”

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

When Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?”

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.