Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.


For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.

So I concluded that wisdom [is] better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people. We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!


Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.

And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.

He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.

There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap [their] hands [for joy] concerning you, {For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty}?

For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.


It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

And [the] righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, [saying],

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."


A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know evil.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.



He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.


But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone [away].


For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.


For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.


For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.

He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious [in] his ways displeases him.

He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity.

Whoever walks in integrity will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known.




Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him.

And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.

He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.

There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap [their] hands [for joy] concerning you, {For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty}?

For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse {mind} will be despised.


It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place.

And [the] righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, [saying],

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."