Wisdom & Truth Verses

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow {him}. {an...: or, an evil speaker (Heb. a man of tongue), a wicked man of violence, be established in the earth: let him be hunted to his overthrow}

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, {and} the right of the poor.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Incline not my heart to {any} evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth {wood} upon the earth.

Keep me from the snares {which} they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. {escape: Heb. pass over}

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.