Genesis 16:12

They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’

The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .

“Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs the wind in her craving. When she is in heat, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves. In her month, they will find her.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”

For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;” and it was so.