A wise one fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is confident.

A prudent person foresees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.

The ones who feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee to the shelters.

But the ones who did not set their heart upon the word of Jehovah left their servants and their livestock in the field.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms and shut your doors behind you; hide (as it were) for a few moments, until the indignation has passed.

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand),

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the children a young man lacking heart,

In an instant he goes after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool goes to correction in fetters;

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare; and does not realize that it is for his soul.

Whoever is simple, let him turn in here; and to the one lacking heart, she says to him:

But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there; the ones she summons are in the depths of Sheol.

A man who hardens his neck when reproved shall be suddenly broken, and there will be no healing.