Job 21:14

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“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.

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

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

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;

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

They began to beg him to depart from their region.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

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

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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.