Isaiah 59:4
There is nobody {who pleads with} justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity;
Job 15:35
[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore the holy one of Israel says this: "Because you [are] rejecting this word and you trust in oppression and {cunning} and you rely on it,
Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust in {the deceitful words}, {saying}, 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they [are] the temple of Yahweh.'
Jeremiah 7:8
Look, you [are] relying for yourselves on {deceitful words} without benefiting.
Job 15:31
Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.
Psalm 7:13-14
And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.
Psalm 62:4
They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah
Psalm 62:10
Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain [confidence] in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set [your] heart [on it].
Proverbs 4:16
For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.
Isaiah 59:13-14
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning {away from following} our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from [the] heart.
Isaiah 59:16
And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness {was what} sustained him.
Jeremiah 5:1
"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.
Jeremiah 5:4-5
Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.
Ezekiel 22:29-31
They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery}, and they mistreated [the] needy and [the] poor, and they oppressed the alien {without} justice.
Micah 2:1
Woe [to] those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands.
Micah 7:2-5
The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.
James 1:15
Then desire, [after it] has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, [when it] is brought to completion, gives birth to death.