Job 35:4

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

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;

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

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.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

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

At that time, Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

When the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely that is the king of Israel!” and they came over to fight against him. Jehoshaphat cried out.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

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

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 come to the brink of utter ruin, among the gathered assembly.”

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

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

Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas and rivers, all that move in the waters, and all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, “Strike him also in the chariot!” They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

So Jehu struck all that remained of Ahab’s house in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him no one remaining.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, and hear your wisdom.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

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.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

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

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

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

I also will answer my part, and I also will show my opinion.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

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

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

So you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them.

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

He said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth Gilead?” Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.