Proverbs 6 Cross References - BBE

¹ My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another, ² You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you. ³ Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour. ⁴ Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them; ⁵ Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her. ⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise: ⁷ Having no chief, overseer, or ruler, ⁸ She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting. ⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep? ¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man ¹² A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words; ¹³ Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers; ¹⁴ His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts. ¹⁵ For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him. ¹⁶ Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him: ¹⁷ Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause; ¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; ¹⁹ A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers. ²⁰ My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: ²¹ Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. ²² In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you. ²³ For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life. ²⁴ They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. ²⁵ Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. ²⁶ For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life. ²⁷ May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing? ²⁸ Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned? ²⁹ So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment. ³⁰ Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: ³¹ But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house. ³² He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. ³³ Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. ³⁴ For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. ³⁵ He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

⁹ Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.

³² For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever. ³³ So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.

³ Be pleased, now, to be responsible for me to yourself; for there is no other who will put his hand in mine.

¹⁵ He who makes himself responsible for a strange man will undergo much loss; but the hater of such undertakings will be safe.

¹⁸ A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

¹⁶ Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

²⁶ Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

¹³ Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

¹⁸ If he has done you any wrong or is in debt to you for anything, put it to my account. ¹⁹ I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.

²² By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

¹³ In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.

⁷ The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.

³ Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.

¹⁴ And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.

⁵ Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.

¹² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

⁸ And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ¹¹ Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

¹⁷ Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house: ¹⁸ And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

³⁵ So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; ³⁶ For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

¹ For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

³ He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

⁷ Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

⁷ But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you; ⁸ Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

⁹ How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

²⁶ Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

⁴ The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

¹⁹ Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

⁹ He who does not give his mind to his work is brother to him who makes destruction.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

²⁴ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin, and will not even take it to his mouth again.

⁴ The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.

²⁵ The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.

³⁰ I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense; ³¹ And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down. ³² Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it. ³³ A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: ³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

¹³ The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. ¹⁴ A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed. ¹⁵ The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him. ¹⁶ The hater of work seems to himself wiser than seven men who are able to give an answer with good sense.

²⁵ The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;

³ Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

²⁶ See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

²⁶ But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

¹¹ Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;

¹² So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

²⁶ Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south? ²⁷ Or is it by your orders that the eagle goes up, and makes his resting-place on high? ²⁸ On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place. ²⁹ From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off. ³⁰ His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.

⁴ Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? ⁵ Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? ⁶ Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders? ⁷ Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head? ⁸ Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again! ⁹ Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him! ¹⁰ He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me? ¹¹ Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven! ¹² I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame. ¹³ Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron? ¹⁴ Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth. ¹⁵ His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp. ¹⁶ One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. ¹⁷ They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted. ¹⁸ His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁹ Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up. ²⁰ Smoke comes out of his nose, like a pot boiling on the fire. ²¹ His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. ²² Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him. ²³ The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved. ²⁴ His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone. ²⁵ When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear. ²⁶ The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron. ²⁷ Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood. ²⁸ The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems. ²⁹ A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear. ³⁰ Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth. ³¹ The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel. ³² After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white. ³³ On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear. ³⁴ Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

²⁷ The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;

⁵ He who in summer gets together his store is a son who does wisely; but he who takes his rest when the grain is being cut is a son causing shame.

¹⁹ Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.

⁸ Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

¹¹ See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

¹⁴ For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it. ⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: ⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. ⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. ⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

⁶ Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. ³⁴ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

⁴ He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

³⁴ So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

²⁸ And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.

³ For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

³ In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

² Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade. ³ You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. Selah. ⁴ Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.

⁷ See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. ⁹ Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

¹² Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

²⁴ Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

¹⁴ His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

²⁷ A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

⁴ A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

² One basket had very good figs, like the figs which first come to growth: and the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they were of no use for food.

⁸ And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt: ⁹ I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering. ¹⁰ And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.

³⁴ You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

¹³ And they get into the way of doing no work, going about from house to house; and not only doing no work, but talking foolishly, being over-interested in the business of others, saying things which they have no right to say.

¹⁰ For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

²¹ For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

¹² Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

¹⁹ Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

⁶ She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

¹⁰ He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

¹⁴ Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

²⁹ Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

¹⁸ A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin; ¹⁹ A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

²⁸ A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends. ²⁹ A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good. ³⁰ He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

⁸ Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

⁸ By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

¹⁷ He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by. ¹⁸ As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death, ¹⁹ So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport? ²⁰ Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended. ²¹ Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started. ²² The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

⁷ The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

²⁰ But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

² Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:

⁷ For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

¹⁷ Now, it is my desire, brothers, that you will take note of those who are causing division and trouble among you, quite against the teaching which was given to you: and keep away from them.

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain. ⁸ Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

¹⁶ But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

²² Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

¹⁸ You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. ¹⁹ How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. ²⁰ As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

¹³ This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute. ¹⁴ And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

¹¹ And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Even so will this people and this town be broken by me, as a potter's bottle is broken and may not be put together again: and the bodies of the dead will be put in the earth in Topheth, till there is no more room.

³ When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

¹⁰ Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, ¹¹ Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions. ¹² For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

¹⁸ Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

⁴ Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

¹⁶ For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

⁵ The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

³² For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.

¹ Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

²⁰ The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight. ⁹ The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

¹⁵ He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

¹⁰ Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

²³ Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

¹⁸ There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:

²¹ For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:

²⁴ There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:

²⁹ There are three things whose steps are good to see, even four whose goings are fair:

³ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

⁶ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.

⁹ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.

¹¹ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.

¹ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.

⁴ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.

⁶ These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁰ So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

²⁵ Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁴ And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

⁶ You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

⁴ The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

²⁷ For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

¹⁸ Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

⁶ For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. ⁷ Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. ⁸ Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

⁵ I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me.

² O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit. ³ What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?

¹ A Song of the going up. Of David. Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

²² False lips are hated by the Lord, but those whose acts are true are his delight.

⁵ A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

⁷ Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

⁴ A high look and a heart of pride, (OMITTED TEXT) of the evil-doer is sin.

²⁸ A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

¹³ There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up!

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.

⁹ Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

¹⁶ Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

³ For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit. ⁴ No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil. ⁵ They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake. ⁶ Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands. ⁷ Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

¹ Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land. ² There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

⁵ And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

⁸ He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

⁷ Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

¹⁷ Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood;

¹⁶ Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

¹ Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

¹⁶ If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong, ¹⁷ Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; ¹⁸ And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother, ¹⁹ Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you. ²⁰ And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

¹⁰ And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death. ¹¹ So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them. ¹² They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people. ¹³ And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death. ¹⁴ And they sent word to Jezebel, saying, Naboth has been stoned and is dead. ¹⁵ Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

¹² Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

¹¹ False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

¹⁷ The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.

²⁸ A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

⁵ A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.

⁹ A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.

¹⁰ Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.

¹⁸ One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

²⁰ Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

⁵⁹ Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;

¹³ And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

²³ And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. ¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

⁹ I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there. ¹⁰ So if I come, I will keep in mind the things he does, talking against us with evil words: and as if this was not enough, he does not take the brothers into his house, and those who are ready to take them in, he keeps from doing so, putting them out of the church if they do.

¹⁸ If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

⁸ My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother: ⁹ For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

¹ My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you. ² Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes; ³ Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. ⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

²² Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.

¹¹ There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

¹⁶ And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.

⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

³ Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

⁶ Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

²¹ Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

³ For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

⁴ As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

³ O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

⁹ BETH How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

²⁴ Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.

⁵⁴ Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

⁹⁷ MEM O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

¹¹ Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

²³ Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping. ²⁴ When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

¹⁸ After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him. ¹⁹ Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again. ²⁰ Then his place will be taken by one who will send out a man with the glory of a king to get wealth together; but after a short time destruction will overtake him, but not in wrath or in the fight. ²¹ And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.

¹⁷ Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

⁸ The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.

⁹⁸ Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever. ⁹⁹ I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word. ¹⁰⁰ I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

¹⁰⁵ NUN Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.

⁵ Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

⁴ And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

¹³ Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

¹² And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

²⁴ Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

³¹ The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

¹⁵ The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.

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⁸ And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.

¹⁹ And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

⁵ So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

¹⁶ To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

³ For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

⁵ So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

²⁶ And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

² Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. ³ And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: for she had been made clean; then she went back to her house. ⁵ And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.

³⁰ And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

⁹ You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

²⁸ But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

¹⁴ But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. ¹⁵ Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

¹⁴ She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

³⁶ Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

¹⁰ And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

²³ Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

³ A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.

⁸ Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.

⁸ So this is what the Lord has said: Because your words are without substance and your visions are false, see, I am against you, says the Lord.

¹⁸ This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?

¹³ And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living. ¹⁴ And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need. ¹⁵ And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.

³⁰ But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

⁹ If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door; ¹⁰ Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body. ¹¹ For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges: ¹² It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

⁴ They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened. ⁵ On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride. ⁶ For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

⁵ Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

¹⁸ Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

⁴ Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation? ⁵ Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this. ⁶ And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her. ⁷ So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

¹⁰ Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours. ¹¹ And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

¹⁰ And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

³ And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? ⁴ And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: for she had been made clean; then she went back to her house.

⁹ Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.

⁵ Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

⁸ They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife. ⁹ Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

¹¹ And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

¹ Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

¹ If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made. ² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. ⁴ If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

²⁵ And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

⁸ And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

⁹ So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God? ¹⁰ And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her.

³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:

¹⁴ Do not be false to the married relation.

¹⁸ For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: ¹⁹ Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. ²³ He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

⁷ I saw among the young men one without sense,

²² The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord; ²³ Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

³⁶ But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

⁴ Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

¹⁶ Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: ¹⁷ Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. ¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

²⁵ I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses. ²⁶ And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

⁸ They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.

²¹ Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

¹¹ Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom. ¹² My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

⁹ I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, ²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. ²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

¹⁹ And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him. ²⁰ Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him. ²¹ So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

⁵ Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

²⁶ Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. To keep in memory. O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion. ² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. ³ My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. ⁵ My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. ⁶ I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. ⁷ For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy. ⁸ I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

⁸ Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

⁹ For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: ¹⁰ And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; ¹¹ And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

⁶ And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;

¹⁴ If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:

¹¹ Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

²⁹ And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel. ³⁰ And he gave orders to the men whom he sent, saying, This is what you are to say to all the men of Israel, Has ever an act like this been done from the day when the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day? Give thought to it, turning it over in your minds, and give your opinion of it.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

⁶ Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

¹ Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

³ For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

¹³ So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

²⁵ Before the mountains were put in their places, before the hills was my birth:

⁹ And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

⁹ And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.