Proverbs 16:10

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

“ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.

Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Isn’t this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.’ ”

Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Don’t you know that such a man as I can indeed do divination?”

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

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.

The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.