Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?

When wise people speak, they make knowledge attractive, but stupid people spout nonsense.

When some fool starts an argument, he is asking for a beating.

When a fool speaks, he is ruining himself; he gets caught in the trap of his own words.

Then Solomon made a solemn promise in the LORD's name, "May God strike me dead if I don't make Adonijah pay with his life for asking this!

You destroy all liars and despise violent, deceitful people.

He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.

Then the king gave orders to arrest all those who had accused Daniel, and he had them thrown, together with their wives and children, into the pit filled with lions. Before they even reached the bottom of the pit, the lions pounced on them and broke all their bones.

The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"

The righteous are protected from trouble; it comes to the wicked instead.

May the angel, who has rescued me from all harm, bless them! May my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac live on through these boys! May they have many children, many descendants!"

David answered them, "I take a vow by the living LORD, who has saved me from all dangers!

Good people suffer many troubles, but the LORD saves them from them all;

Avoid both extremes. If you have reverence for God, you will be successful anyway.

Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

And so the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and how to keep the wicked under punishment for the Day of Judgment,