When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside."

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

His resolve is firm; he will not succumb to fear before he looks in triumph on his enemies.

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.

Your silver has become scum, your beer is diluted with water.

It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern."

You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world's dirt and scum, even now.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.