Psalms 107:17

World English Bible (2000)

Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities.

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  • Lam 3:39 : 39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
  • Isa 57:17-18 : 17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and struck him; I hid [my face] and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart. 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
  • Isa 65:6-7 : 6 "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom, 7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together," says Yahweh, "who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom."
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 "Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you," says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Num 11:33-34 : 33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague. 34 The name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
  • Num 12:10-13 : 10 The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 Aaron said to Moses, "Oh, my lord, please don't count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb." 13 Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "Heal her, God, I beg you!"
  • Num 21:5-9 : 5 The people spoke against God, and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread." 6 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died. 7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people. 8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
  • Ps 38:1-8 : 1 Yahweh, don't rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
  • Ps 92:6 : 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
  • Prov 7:22 : 22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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    18Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

    19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

  • Prov 19:3
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    3The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

  • Ps 107:27-28
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    27They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

    28Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

  • Ps 107:16
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    16For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

  • Ps 107:10-13
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    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

    11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

    12Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

    13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • Prov 1:32
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    32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Ps 107:39
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    39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

  • Prov 14:8-9
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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

    9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

  • Prov 19:29
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    29Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Prov 17:25
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    25A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

  • Prov 17:21
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    21He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

  • Prov 26:9-10
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    9Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

    10As an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires those who pass by.

  • Ps 53:1
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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

  • 2 Cor 11:19
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    19For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

  • Ps 38:5
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    5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

  • Ps 14:1
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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

  • Prov 18:6-7
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    6A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

    7A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

  • Ps 107:5-6
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    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

    6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

  • Prov 22:15
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    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • Eccl 4:5
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    5The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • Rom 1:22
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    22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

  • Prov 26:7
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    7Like the legs of the lame that hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

  • Eccl 10:3
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    3Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.

  • Ps 119:67
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    67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • Prov 26:3
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    3A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

  • Job 36:8
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    8If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

  • Job 12:17
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    17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

  • Eccl 10:15
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    15The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

  • Job 24:12
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    12From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn't regard the folly.

  • Job 30:8
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    8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

  • Ps 106:43
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    43Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

  • Jer 30:15
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    15Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.