Psalms 38:14

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to Jacob. He went in to her.

The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

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,

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.

but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.

The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’ ”

Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young virgin be sought for my lord the king. Let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.”

But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Shall I wait, because they don’t speak, because they stand still, and answer no more?

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn’t believe them.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

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.

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.