1 Samuel 18:11

18:11 and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

1 Samuel 19:10-11

19:10 Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. ¹  David escaped quickly ²  that night.

19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save yourself ³  tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

Proverbs 22:24

22:24 Do not make friends with an angry person, ⁴ 

and do not associate with a wrathful person,

Ecclesiastes 9:3

9:3 This is the unfortunate fact ⁵  about everything that happens on earth: ⁶ 

the same fate awaits ⁷  everyone.

In addition to this, the hearts of all people ⁸  are full of evil,

and there is folly in their hearts during their lives – then they die. ⁹ 

Jeremiah 17:9

17:9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else.

It is incurably bad. ¹⁰  Who can understand it?

[19:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and he drove the spear into the wall.”

[19:10]  ² tn Heb “fled and escaped.”

[19:11]  ³ tn Heb “your life.”

[22:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “possessor of anger.” This expression is an idiom for “wrathful person” or “an angry person” (cf. NAB “a hotheaded man”; NLT “short-tempered people”). These are people characterized by anger, meaning the anger is not a rare occurrence with them.

[9:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “evil.”

[9:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “under the sun.”

[9:3]  ⁷ tn The term “awaits” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for smoothness and stylistic reasons.

[9:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “also the heart of the sons of man.” Here “heart” is a collective singular.

[9:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and after that [they go] to [the place of] the dead.”

[17:9]  ¹⁰ tn Or “incurably deceitful”; Heb “It is incurable.” For the word “deceitful” compare the usage of the verb in Gen 27:36 and a related noun in 2 Kgs 10:19. For the adjective “incurable” compare the usage in Jer 15:18. It is most commonly used with reference to wounds or of pain. In Jer 17:16 it is used metaphorically for a “woeful day” (i.e., day of irreparable devastation).