Integrity guides decent people, but hypocrisy leads treacherous people to ruin.
Integrity and honesty will protect me because I wait for you.
Judge me favorably, O Lord, because I have walked with integrity and I have trusted you without wavering.
The righteousness of innocent people makes their road smooth, but wicked people fall by their own wickedness.
Righteousness protects the honest way of life, but wickedness ruins a sacrifice for sin.
The stupidity of a person turns his life upside down, and his heart rages against the Lord.
But wicked people will be cut off from the land and treacherous people will be torn from it.
The violence of wicked people will drag them away since they refuse to do what is just.
The Lord’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he overturns the words of a treacherous person.
Whoever lives honestly will be safe. Whoever lives dishonestly will fall all at once.
Don’t be too wicked, and don’t be a fool. Why should you die before your time is up?
Rebels and sinners will be crushed at the same time, and those who abandon the Lord will come to an end.
Among those killed were the five kings of Midian—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.
Those who want to follow the will of God will know if what I teach is from God or if I teach my own thoughts.