Proverbs 28:19

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;

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

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

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

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

As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

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,

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws joined up with Jephthah, and they went out with him.

Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

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.

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

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

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

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

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart, then I can answer my tormentor.

Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

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

They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.

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.

David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

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.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

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

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.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

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

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.” But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Worthless men were gathered to him, wicked fellows who strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not withstand them.

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

The foolish woman is loud, undisciplined, and knows nothing.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.” as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

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

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil won’t be rich.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.