Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
Now then, you wise, take note; you men of knowledge, give ear to me. Let it be far from God to do evil, and from the Ruler of all to do wrong.
Truly, God does not do evil, and the Ruler of all is not a false judge.
How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?
He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;
There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.
May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.
And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?
There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?
And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.
He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.
For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;
Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.
Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.
If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.
The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?
I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.
Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.
Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.
And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?
Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?
This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.
Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?
So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,
My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.
Jesus said in answer, If I have said anything evil, give witness to the evil: but if I said what is true, why do you give me blows?
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.
The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?
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