Proverbs 7:22

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

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;

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

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

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

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

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, worshiped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an offering and sweet odors to him.

All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

They conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of Yahweh’s house.

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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

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

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring out my armies, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

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.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

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

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.

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

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

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

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

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

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.