For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.

The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.

The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

The thing feared by the evil-doer will come to him, but the upright man will get his desire.

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

The lips of the upright man have knowledge of what is pleasing, but twisted are the mouths of evil-doers.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.

By the blessing of the upright man the town is made great, but it is overturned by the mouth of the evil-doer.

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Deceit is in the heart of those whose designs are evil, but for those purposing peace there is joy.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.

The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.

Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.

The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.

The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.

By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.

A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

A violent man puts desire of evil into his neighbour's mind, and makes him go in a way which is not good.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

To have respect for the person of the evil-doer is not good, or to give a wrong decision against the upright.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

A good-for-nothing witness makes sport of the judge's decision: and the mouth of evil-doers sends out evil like a stream.

A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.

By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.

The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.