¹⁷ Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

²³ And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

²³ and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

¹⁰ and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried `her' by her husband;

⁵ and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,

¹⁶ Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

³² Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.

³³ He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

³⁸ And it cometh to pass, `in' about ten days, that Jehovah smiteth Nabal, and he dieth,

⁷ and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

⁸ And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

⁹ and Onan knoweth that the seed is not `reckoned' his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed `it' to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother;

¹⁰ and that which he hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and He putteth him also to death.

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

²⁰ And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,

¹⁷ And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? hath it been a light thing to the house of Judah to do the abomination that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me to anger? and lo, they are putting forth the branch unto their nose!

³³ What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

³⁴ Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.