If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.

His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.

The faithful witness tells what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.

David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.

Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.

“‘When a person sins in that he hears a public curse against one who fails to testify and he is a witness (he either saw or knew what had happened) and he does not make it known, then he will bear his punishment for iniquity.

When he gets ready to go to sleep, take careful notice of the place where he lies down. Then go, uncover his legs, and lie down beside him. He will tell you what you should do.”

Take ten loaves of bread, some small cakes, and a container of honey and visit him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

All nations gather together, the peoples assemble. Who among them announced this? Who predicted earlier events for us? Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right; let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’

They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.

But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.”

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty of all the deaths in your father’s house!

One of his advisers said, “No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom.”

For no one knows what is best for a person during his life – during the few days of his fleeting life – for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

Do not curse a king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich while in your bedroom; for a bird might report what you are thinking, or some winged creature might repeat your words.