Proverbs 29:19

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

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

Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

“You shall not murder.

“If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.

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

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

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

“If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, the man shall surely be punished.

“If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

and the judges shall make diligent inquisition; and behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

Your eyes shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail. This woman was intelligent and had a beautiful face; but the man was surly and evil in his doings. He was of the house of Caleb.

Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.

Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.

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

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Zedekiah the king said, “Behold, he is in your hand; for the king can’t do anything to oppose you.”

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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