Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
And he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”
A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.
And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night. Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.
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