Proverbs 30:10

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him: “I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah who will make known to the king the interpretation.”

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, have not respected you. They don’t serve your gods, and don’t worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

You shall not deliver to his master a servant who has escaped from his master to you.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.” ’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

‘Curse Meroz,’ said Yahweh’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.’

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

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

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

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven, to live in the land of Judah;

“ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.