Thematic Bible: Of men
Thematic Bible
Commandments » Of men » The ten
And he declared to you his covenant, {the Ten Commandments}, which he charged you {to observe}, and he wrote them on [the] two tablets of stone.
And the tablets, they [were] the work of God; and the writing, it [was] the writing of God engraved on the tablets.
And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.
[There] shall not be for you other gods {besides me}.
And he wrote upon the tablets {according to the first writing}, the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me.
And there Joshua wrote on the stones copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the {Israelites}.
Faithfulness » Of men » The workmen under hilkiah
And they dispensed [it] to the skilled craftsmen and the builders to buy stone [for] hewing and timber for the seams and for binding the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed. And the men did the work faithfully. Over them as supervisors [were] appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites. And [other] Levites, all who were skilled in instruments of song,
Faithfulness » Of men » Required of stewards
In this case, moreover, it is sought in stewards that one be found faithful.
Faithfulness » Of men » Nehemiah's treasurers
I appointed as treasurer over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah from the Levites, and as their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful. [The responsibility given] to them was to distribute to their brothers.
Faithfulness » Of men » The workmen under jehoiada
They did not [have to] settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they [were] dealing honestly.
Faithfulness » Of men » Of joseph
And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and {he did not worry about anything} except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was {well built and handsome}.
Faithfulness » Of men » of moses
And Moses [was] faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken,
Faithfulness » Of men » Of daniel
Then the [other] administrators and satraps {began to seek} to find pretext against Daniel {in connection with the kingdom}, but they were not able to find any pretext and {corruption} {because} he was trustworthy, and no negligence or {corruption} {could be found in him}.
Folly » Of men » General references to
Dead flies cause a bad smell [and] ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Like a dog returning to his vomit [is] a fool reverting to his folly.
This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah
The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, they will feed on folly.
He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame.
I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness.
Folly » Of men » Revealed
But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the [folly] of those [two] was.
For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words.
A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly.
The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly.
A fool will not take pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his heart.
Even when the fool walks along the road, he lacks sense; he tells everyone [that] he is a fool.