Ecclesiastes 4:15
Hebrew Text— Ecclesiastes 4:15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
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For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,
All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.
“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign. However the kingdom is turned around, and has become my brother’s; for it was his from Yahweh.
With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.