“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

The prince who is a great oppressor lacks wisdom, but the one who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

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

I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

The people I call my own have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They have roared defiantly at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them.

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

and rejected Esau. I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals.”

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

Then his brothers asked him, “Do you really think you will rule over us or have dominion over us?” They hated him even more because of his dream and because of what he said.

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.

You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

You complained among yourselves privately and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.