Good people are guided by their honesty, but crooks who lie and cheat will ruin themselves.
Goodness protects honest people, but evil destroys those who love to sin.
Honest people will be safe, but dishonest people will be ruined.
People ruin their lives with the foolish things they do, and then they blame the Lord for it.
Lord, you be the judge and prove that I have lived a pure life. I have depended on you, Lord, to keep me from falling.
You are good and do what is right. I trust you to protect me.
People who really want to do what God wants will know that my teaching comes from God. They will know that this teaching is not my own.
Doing right makes life better for those who are good, but the wicked are destroyed by their own wicked ways.
But all the criminals and sinners will be destroyed. Those who stopped following the Lord will be removed.
The bad things that evil people do will destroy them, because they refuse to do what is right.
But the wicked will be forced to leave. Those who lie and cheat will be thrown out of the land.
The Lord watches over true knowledge, and he opposes those who try to deceive others.
Among the people who they killed were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with a sword.