12 All bribery and injustice will be blotted out. Good faith will stand forever. (WEB) 13 The goods of the unjust will be dried up like a river, and like a great thunder in rain will go off in noise. (WEB)
Sirach 40:12–13
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2 Esdras 6:26–28
26 They will see the men who have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth. The heart of the inhabitants will be changed and turned into a different spirit. (WEB) 27 For evil will be blotted out and deceit will be quenched. (WEB) 28 Faith will flourish. Corruption… (WEB)
Job 15:33–35
33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. 34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant wit…
Proverbs 10:24–26
24 What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. 25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever. 26 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those w…
Sirach 7:1–3
1 Do no evil, so no evil will overtake you. (WEB) 2 Depart from wrong, and it will turn away from you. (WEB) 3 My son, don’t sow upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and you won’t reap them sevenfold. (WEB)
Psalms 94:14–16
14 For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage. 15 Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
Book of Enoch 91:7–9
7 And when sin and unrighteousness and blasphemy And violence in all kinds of deeds increase, And apostasy and transgression and uncleanness increase, A great chastisement shall come from heaven upon all these, And the holy Lord will come forth with wrath and c… (ENO)
Proverbs 14:10–12
10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy. 11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Sirach 16:12–14
12 As his mercy is great, so is his correction also. He judges a man according to his works. (WEB) 13 The sinner will not escape with plunder. The perseverance of the godly will not be frustrated. (WEB) 14 He will make room for every work of mercy. Each man will receive according t… (WEB)
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