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