For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He also has rejected you from being king.

And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the mouth of Jehovah and your words, because I feared the people and heeded their voice.

So he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

But his lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter.

So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.

Then He will answer them, saying, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

And he said to him, Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a harsh man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?

And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may eat to feed;

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die the death.

But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.

But they did not listen, nor extend their ear, but walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun?

And I have given my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that which is done under the heavens. It is an evil task which God has given to the sons of men to be busied with.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and striving of spirit.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and striving of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun.

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is evil to me; for all is vanity and striving of spirit.

The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the perpetual covenant.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through Him who subjected it in hope;

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails together until now.

For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;

yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Man who is born of woman is of few days, and full of turmoil.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! How often does their calamity come upon them, the sorrows God distributes in His anger!

For we have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we have been terrified.

For all our days have turned away in Your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.

For what has man from all his labor, and from the striving of his heart, in which he has labored under the sun?

For all his days are sorrows, and his task grief; yea, his heart does not take rest in the night. This also is vanity.

All his days he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.