Holy Scripture

Proverbs 3:32

A church father on this verse
“"For the Lord detests the perverse man." The Lord detests every mocker. Indeed, every mocker, because a mocker either despises carrying out the words of God which he knows, or distorts them by understanding and teaching them perversely. A mocker is also one who despises His promises as small, and scorns His threatenin…”
Bede, 8th c. — Commentary on Proverbs

Source: Septuagint

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32For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; Neither does he sit among the righteous.

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30Be not ready to quarrel with a man without a cause, Lest he do thee some harm.

31Procure not the reproaches of bad men, Neither do thou covet their ways.

— Proverbs 3:32 —

33The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; But the habitations of the just are blessed.

34The Lord resists the proud; But he gives grace to the humble.

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