When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.
and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,
He who pleads his cause first seems right— until another comes and questions him.
If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.
Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him.
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,