Lexicon :: Strong's H1167 - baʿal

Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly;

it takes the lives of those who receive it.[fn]

When it is in your power,[fn]

don’t withhold good from the one to whom it belongs.

A wife of noble character[fn] is her husband’s crown,

but a wife who causes shame

is like rottenness in his bones.

Insight is a fountain of life for its possessor,

but the discipline of fools is folly.

A bribe seems like a magic stone to its owner;

wherever he turns, he succeeds.

The one who is lazy in his work

is brother to a vandal.[fn]

Don’t make friends with an angry person,[fn]

and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,

and put a knife to your throat

if you have a big[fn] appetite;

The one who plots evil

will be called a schemer.

An angry person stirs up conflict,

and a hot-tempered one[fn] increases rebellion.

The heart of her husband trusts in her,

and he will not lack anything good.

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

because wisdom is protection as silver is protection;

but the advantage of knowledge

is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.

No one has authority over the wind[fn] to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

If the snake bites before it is charmed,

then there is no advantage for the charmer.[fn]

The sayings of the wise are like cattle prods, and those from masters of collections are like firmly embedded nails. The sayings are given by one Shepherd.[fn]

“The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,

but Israel does not know;

my people do not understand.”

For Heshbon’s terraced vineyards

and the grapevines of Sibmah have withered.

The rulers of the nations

have trampled its choice vines

that reached as far as Jazer

and spread to the desert.

Their shoots spread out

and reached the sea.

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,

new, with many teeth.

You will thresh mountains and pulverize them

and make hills into chaff.

The one who vindicates me is near;

who will contend with me?

Let us confront each other.[fn]

Who has a case against me?[fn]

Let him come near me!

But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans.”

He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with savage fury.

Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,

mourning for the husband of her youth.

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God;

the LORD takes vengeance

and is fierce in[fn] wrath.

The LORD takes vengeance against his foes;

he is furious with his enemies.