There are men, children of Belial, gone out from among you, and they have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, whom ye have not known;

Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto.

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.

But the children of Belial said, How should this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he was as one deaf.

And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

And all the wicked men, and men of Belial, of those that had gone with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart.

And thus said Shimei as he cursed: Away, away, thou man of blood and man of Belial!

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.

But the sons of Belial are all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;

and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.

And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

And vain men, sons of Belial, gathered to him and strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, and Rehoboam was young and faint-hearted, and did not shew himself strong against them.

Shall one say to a king, Belial? to nobles, Wicked?

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.

I will set no thing of Belial before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

A man of Belial diggeth up evil, and on his lips there is as a scorching fire.

A witness of Belial scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth down iniquity.