Let not my soul come into their counsel; let not my honor be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed a man; and in self-will they hamstrung a bull.
And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those living in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites. And I being few in number, and they gathering against me, they will strike me, and I and my house shall be wasted.
And David captured from him seventeen hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen. And David hamstrung all of the chariot horses; but he left a hundred chariots of them.
and David captured from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left of them a hundred chariots.
Happy is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the wicked ones, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of scorners.
O God, hold them guilty; let them fall from their own counsels. Drive them away in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.
I did not sit in the circle of ones who laugh in derision, and did not exult. I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.
My bowels! My bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart roars within me. I cannot be silent, for I have heard the sound of the rams’ horn. O my soul, the alarm of war!
Do not be unequally yoked with faithless ones. For what partnership does righ- teousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?