Psalms 75:4

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;

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

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

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Then I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

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

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

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

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,