Verse 17

Some became fools because of their rebellious ways and suffered because of their sins.

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  • Lam 3:39 : 39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
  • Isa 57:17-18 : 17 Because of their sinful greed, I was angry; I struck them and turned away in anger, yet they continued in their willful ways. 18 I have seen their ways, but I will heal them; I will guide them and restore comfort to them and to those who mourn for them.
  • Isa 65:6-7 : 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps. 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
  • Num 11:33-34 : 33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and He struck them with a severe plague. 34 So they named that place Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved meat.
  • Num 12:10-13 : 10 When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam's skin was leprous—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a skin disease. 11 And he said to Moses, 'Please, my lord, do not hold this sin against us. We acted foolishly and sinned. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away.' 13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, 'O God, please heal her!'
  • Num 21:5-9 : 5 The people spoke against God and Moses: 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, no water, and we detest this miserable food!' 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said, 'We have sinned, for we spoke against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD to take the serpents away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The LORD said to Moses, 'Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten and looks at it will live.' 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole, and if a serpent bit someone, they looked at the bronze serpent and lived.
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. 2 O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. 3 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me. 4 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. 5 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too much for me to bear. 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent over and deeply bowed down; all day long I go about mourning. 8 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 And I saw among the naive ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding.
  • Prov 7:22 : 22 He follows her all at once, like an ox going to slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of shackles.