Nehemiah 4:12

Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be called to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”

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.’

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

The magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their enchantments. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger;” but Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

So the decree went out, and the wise men were to be slain. They sought Daniel and his companions to be slain.

“Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Stay with him a few days, until your brother’s fury turns away—

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”

Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.

“These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven’t eaten the rams of your flocks.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife.”

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

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.”

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

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

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.