For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.

He helped them out of the way of their iniquity; for they were brought low because of their iniquities.

Let not my lord take to heart this pestilent man, for according to his name, so is he- Nabal is his name, and folly is with him! But I, your maidservant, did not see the servants of my lord whom you sent.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practice it: and godliness toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will nullify wisdom and instruction.

So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and have become subject to reproofs.

The desires of the godly gladden the soul, but the works of the ungodly are far from knowledge.

Though you scourge a fool, disgracing him in the midst of the council, you will [still] in no way remove his folly from him.

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [Him]; God is not before him.

For the end, [A Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day

You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.

Therefore may God destroy you forever, may He pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

And you have said, What does the Mighty One know? Does He judge in the dark?

And just as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things which are not fitting;

that at that time you were apart from Christ, being estranged from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope and atheists in the world.

For the end, [A Psalm], by David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, [that] there is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are transgression and deceit; he is not inclined to understand [how] to do good.

They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity shall speak [so].

They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.

Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.

[ 6:6] And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that everyone in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,

[ 6:12] But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

[ 6:13] And the Lord God saw the earth, that it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.

Alas, sinful nation, a people full of sins, an evil seed, lawless children; you have forsaken the Lord, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

Because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

and likewise also the males, having forsaken the natural use of the female, were inflamed by their lust for one another, males with males, committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and sinners, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all who are false shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Just as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one,

All [have] turned aside; together they became unprofitable; there is not [one] doing kindness, there is not so much as one."

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.