Job 34:7

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

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

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.

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.’ ”

“ ‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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

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;

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

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

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,

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

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

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;

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

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

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

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

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.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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

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.

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

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

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

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

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

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

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.

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

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

Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

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

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

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

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

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

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

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

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.

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.

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

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.

Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

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!

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

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

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.