Proverbs 5:12

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

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.”

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

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;

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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

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

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

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

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and doesn’t heed the warning, if the sword comes, and takes him away, his blood will be on his own head.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

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.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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.

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”