The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

Diverse weights and diverse measures – the Lord abhors both of them.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees – the Lord has made them both.

My child, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad;

These sayings also are from the wise: To show partiality in judgment is terrible:

The one who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach – yet his appetite is never satisfied!

And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

So I will pull your skirt up over your face and expose you to shame like a disgraced adulteress!

Armies will be suddenly swept away in defeat before him; both they and a covenant leader will be destroyed.

I have appointed a time to reap judgment for you also, O Judah!Whenever I want to restore the fortunes of my people,

I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying, “You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die – we and you and our little ones.

Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man who is with your servants. We lack nothing.”

He even stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay there naked all that day and night. (For that reason it is asked, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”)

In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel’s commanding general. The Lord your God said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.’”

Again, I observed this on the earth: the race is not always won by the swiftest, the battle is not always won by the strongest; prosperity does not always belong to those who are the wisest, wealth does not always belong to those who are the most discerning, nor does success always come to those with the most knowledge – for time and chance may overcome them all.

You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.