Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.