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ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 6:6-19
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Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise.
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Without leader, administrator, or ruler,
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it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest.
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How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to rest,
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and your poverty will come like a robber, your need, like a bandit.
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A worthless person, a wicked man, who goes around speaking dishonestly,
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who winks his eyes, signals with his feet, and gestures with his fingers,
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who plots evil with perversity in his heart-- he stirs up trouble constantly.
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Therefore calamity will strike him suddenly; he will be shattered instantly-- beyond recovery.
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Six things the LORD hates; in fact, seven are detestable to Him:
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arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
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a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet eager to run to evil,
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a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 4:8
In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 5:27
We have investigated this, and it is true! Hear it and understand [it] for yourself.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_18 15:17
Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 37:25
I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned or his children begging bread.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 107:42
The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_21 4:1-8
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Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.
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So I admired the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive.
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But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.
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I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man's jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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The fool folds his arms and consumes his own flesh.
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Better one handful with rest, than two handfuls with effort and pursuit of the wind.
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Again, I saw futility under the sun:
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There is a person without a companion, without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches. "So who am I struggling for," [he asks,] "and depriving myself from good?" This too is futile and a miserable task.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_21 7:15
In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_21 8:9-11
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All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.
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In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they did so. This too is futile.
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Because the sentence against a criminal act is not carried out quickly, therefore the heart of people is filled [with the desire] to commit crime.
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ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 10:13
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of the one who lacks sense.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_20 12:11
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.