At the beginning their words are folly; at the end they are wicked madness—

他口中的言语起头是愚昧；他话的末尾是奸恶的狂妄。

他口中的话语起头是愚昧，终局是邪恶的狂妄。

他口中的话语起头是愚昧，终局是邪恶的狂妄。

愚人开口是愚昧，闭口是邪恶狂妄。

愚昧人的话开头是愚昧，结尾是邪恶狂妄。

他口中话语的开头是愚昧，尽头是邪恶的狂妄。

他口中的言語起頭是愚昧；他話的末尾是奸惡的狂妄。

他口中的話語起頭是愚昧，終局是邪惡的狂妄。

他口中的話語起頭是愚昧，終局是邪惡的狂妄。

愚人開口是愚昧，閉口是邪惡狂妄。

愚昧人的話開頭是愚昧，結尾是邪惡狂妄。

他口中的話起頭就愚昧；他口中說的、末尾是惡性的狂妄。

他口中話語的開頭是愚昧，盡頭是邪惡的狂妄。

其口所言、始則愚昧、終則狂妄、

其言也始則拙、終則狂。

其口之言、始則愚拙、終則狂妄、

At first what they say is foolish. In the end their words are very evil.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.

Fools base their thoughts on foolish assumptions, so their conclusions will be wicked madness;

The beginning of the words from his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness;

the beginning of his talking is foolishness, and the end of it is evil insanity.

The words of his mouth begin with foolishness, And the end of his talk is raving madness.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness.

The beginning of the words of his mouth[ is] foolishness: and the end of his talk[ is] mischievous madness.

At the beginning his words are foolish and at the end his talk is wicked madness,

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

Nabal answered David’s servants,“ Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?”

Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared.He sent them to Bethlehem and said,“ Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”

Soon all the men of Israel were coming to the king and saying to him,“ Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, steal the king away and bring him and his household across the Jordan, together with all his men?”All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel,“ We did this because the king is closely related to us. Why are you angry about it? Have we eaten any of the king’s provisions? Have we taken anything for ourselves?”Then the men of Israel answered the men of Judah,“ We have ten shares in the king; so we have a greater claim on David than you have. Why then do you treat us with contempt? Weren’t we the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the men of Judah pressed their claims even more forcefully than the men of Israel.Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted,“ We have no share in David, no part in Jesse’s son! Every man to his tent, Israel!”

But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.

He said to them,“ Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”

“ We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name,” he said.“ Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man’s blood.”Peter and the other apostles replied:“ We must obey God rather than human beings!The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from the dead— whom you killed by hanging him on a cross.God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and Savior that he might bring Israel to repentance and forgive their sins.We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put them to death.

The king replied,“ If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?”

But the king said,“ You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”Then the king ordered the guards at his side:“ Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.The king then ordered Doeg,“ You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen( as it was called)— Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia— who began to argue with Stephen.But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.Then they secretly persuaded some men to say,“ We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

Some of the Pharisees asked,“ Why are you doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.

Saul said nothing that day, for he thought,“ Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean— surely he is unclean.”But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan,“ Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”Jonathan answered,“ David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.He said,‘ Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him,“ You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!”“ Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father.But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.

So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,

When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi.

If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.

When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions,waiting to catch him in something he might say.

On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s wife,“ Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?”

He said,“ May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!”

A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought in a lot of business for the craftsmen there.He called them together, along with the workers in related trades, and said:“ You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus and in practically the whole province of Asia. He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.There is danger not only that our trade will lose its good name, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited; and the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the province of Asia and the world, will be robbed of her divine majesty.”When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting:“ Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.“ Look,” he said,“ I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him,dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed,“ Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”