And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Then Joab said to Amasa, Are you in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

He who hates, disguises it with his lips, and lays up deceit within himself.

He whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be disclosed before the assembly.

Again, I considered all labor, and every successful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and striving of spirit.

in Lod, Ono, and the Valley of Craftsmen.

The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemer, who built Ono and Lod with their daughter-villages;

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah arose, and the ten men who were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they act out love, but their hearts go after their unjust gain.

The best of them is like a thorn; the upright more than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchman and your punishment comes; now shall be their perplexity.

Put no faith in a companion; put no trust in a friend; keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom;

And the chief priests and the scribes that same hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people; for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.

Then they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal regard, but teach the way of God in truth: