Proverbs 4:19

I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.

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

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

My son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

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;

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Happy are the people who are in such a situation. Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

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

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

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

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

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

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

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

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

Then Yahweh said to me, “You have seen well; for I watch over my word to perform it.”

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”

Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.