An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
who tell the seers, *Don't see!* and to the prophets, *Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.