Proverbs 3:29 Cross References - CLV

²⁹ Do not machinate evil against your associate, When he is dwelling in trust with you."

²⁰ For they do not speak peace, And they are devising words of deceit against those enjoying respite in the land."

²⁰ He has put forth his hands against those at peace with him; He has profaned his own covenant.

³ For behold, they wait in ambush for my soul; Strong men are stirring up plots against me, But not for my transgression and not for my sin, O Yahweh."

¹⁴ Duplicity is in his heart; It is engrossed with evil all the time; It is instigating quarrels.

¹⁸ A heart engrossed with lawless devisings, Feet hastening to run to evil,

²² Do they not stray who are engrossed with evil? Yet those engrossed with good show benignity and truth.

²⁹ A malicious man entices his associate And leads him in a way that is not good; ³⁰ He who fixes his eyes in devising duplicity, Who twitches his lips, he determines evil."

¹⁸ And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law does not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words." ¹⁹ Give attention, O Yahweh, unto me, And hearken to the voice of those contending with me." ²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before You to speak good of them, To turn back Your wrath from them."

¹ Woe to devisers of lawlessness and contrivers of evil on their beds! In the light of the morning are they executing it, for it is at the disposal of their hand." ² And they covet fields and snatch them, and houses, and bear them away, and they extort the master and his house, the man and his allotment."