Proverbs 27:3
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 27:3A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.
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You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
“ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,
Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.
He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”
You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”
Of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah settled in Benjamin’s territory.
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.
Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
When wickedness comes, contempt also comes, and with shame comes disgrace.
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.
As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.
Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.