Proverbs 17:7

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

I have seen servants on horses, and princes walking like servants on the earth.

Isn’t it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you will know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in Yahweh’s sight, in asking for a king.”

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food,

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

Should even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?—

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”

He commanded them, saying, “You shall do this in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

A truthful witness will not lie, but a false witness pours out lies.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.

Like a thorn bush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, listened to Yahweh’s words, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.

Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”

I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.

Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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.”

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.