Job 22:15

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

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;

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

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

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

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

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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.

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

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

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

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.

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.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

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

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

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

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

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

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.

The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

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.’ ”

He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

“Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’t overtake them in Gibeah.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Like water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.