For I was jealous of the boastful, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Please, let not my lord set his heart on this man of worthlessness, Nabal. For as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your handmaid, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, but it is an abomination to fools to turn from evil.

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with the grain, his foolishness will not depart from him.

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

Through the pride of his countenance the wicked do not seek after God; God is not in all his schemes.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. Maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.] i0 par Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The Mighty God is good daily.

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

The Mighty God will likewise destroy you forever; He will take you away, and pluck you out of your tent, and has rooted you out of the land of the living. Selah.

And you say, What does the Mighty God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

And even as they do not like to have God in their full true knowledge, God gives them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah.] i0 par The transgression of the wicked declares within my heart: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has left off acting wisely and doing good.

They belch forth, and speak arrogant things; all the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

Understand, you stupid ones among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise?

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.

how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

Offspring 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 proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual perversions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

who change the truth of God into the lie, and fear and serve the created things more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Likewise also the men, abandoning the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men performing what is shameful, and receiving the retribution within themselves, the penalty which is fitting for their error.

being filled with every unrighteousness, sexual perversion, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, depravity; whisperers,

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.

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

But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, prostitutes, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one;

They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;