Job 24:5

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

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

“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.”

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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.”

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

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.

Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered the whole garrison together against him.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.

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

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

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

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

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

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

“ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

There were certain men, who were unclean because of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.

Behold, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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?

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

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.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

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

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposed to all of his brothers.”

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.”

They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

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

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

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

Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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

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

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

That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

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

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,

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.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

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.