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Ecclesiastes 10:13
The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands. People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live— after that they go to the dead.
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Ecclesiastes 7:27
“ Look,” says the Teacher,“ I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,
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2 Peter 2 3-2 Peter 2 9
They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;and if He didn’t spare the ancient world, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when He brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;and if He reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes and condemned them to ruin, making them an example to those who were going to be ungodly;and if He rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the unrestrained behavior of the immoral( for as he lived among them, that righteous man tormented himself day by day with the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,
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Ecclesiastes 2:20
So I began to give myself over to despair concerning all my work that I had labored at under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 2:12
Then I turned to consider wisdom, madness, and folly, for what will the man be like who comes after the king? He will do what has already been done.
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Ecclesiastes 1:13-17
I applied my mind to seek and explore through wisdom all that is done under heaven. God has given people this miserable task to keep them occupied.I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.I said to myself,“ Look, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has thoroughly grasped wisdom and knowledge.”I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:1-3
I said to myself,“ Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.I said about laughter,“ It is madness,” and about pleasure,“ What does this accomplish?”I explored with my mind how to let my body enjoy life with wine and how to grasp folly— my mind still guiding me with wisdom— until I could see what is good for people to do under heaven during the few days of their lives.
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Jeremiah 12:1-2
You will be righteous, Lord, even if I bring a case against You. Yet, I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous live at ease?You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.
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Joshua 7:13
“ Go and consecrate the people. Tell them to consecrate themselves for tomorrow, for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are things that are set apart among you, Israel. You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.
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Proverbs 17:12
Better for a man to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his foolishness.
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Ecclesiastes 3:16-17
I also observed under the sun: there is wickedness at the place of judgment and there is wickedness at the place of righteousness.I said to myself,“ God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.”
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Genesis 34:7
Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident and were deeply grieved and angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.
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2 Samuel 13 12
“ Don’t, my brother!” she cried.“ Don’t humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Don’t do this horrible thing!
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Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
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2 Peter 3 3-2 Peter 3 9
First, be aware of this: Scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, living according to their own desires,saying,“ Where is the promise of His coming? Ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they have been since the beginning of creation.”They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.Through these waters the world of that time perished when it was flooded.But by the same word, the present heavens and earth are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
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Ecclesiastes 2:15
So I said to myself,“ What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile.
