Job 11:3

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

She is weary with toil; yet her great rust, rust by fire, doesn’t leave her.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I will not lie to your face.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”