'Wrong' in the Bible

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus;

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

It is all the same to me; so I say, He puts an end to the sinner and to him who has done no wrong together.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.

The upright are surprised at this, and he who has done no wrong is troubled because of the evil-doers.

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

The upright saw it and were glad: and those who had done no wrong made sport of them,

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.

Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.

Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

There is no searching out of the Ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.

For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.

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

A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.

Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.

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

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

And they put his body into the earth with sinners, and his last resting-place was with the evil-doers, though he had done no wrong, and no deceit was in his mouth.

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.

Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.

They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

For this cause, son of man, say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: In this your fathers have further put shame on my name by doing wrong against me.

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

This is what the Lord has said: Because Edom has taken his payment from the people of Judah, and has done great wrong in taking payment from them;

And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.

And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;

Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.

My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.

Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will take out of his kingdom everything which is a cause of error, and all those who do wrong,

And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.