They insulted God, saying, ¹  “Is God really able to give us food ²  in the wilderness?

hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats. ¹ 

An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous, and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked. ¹ 

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

“For ¹  no good tree bears bad ²  fruit, nor again ³  does a bad tree bear good fruit,

Nothing is hidden ¹  that will not be revealed, ²  and nothing is secret that will not be made known.

So if ¹  you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about ²  the rest?

“I have many more things to say to you, ¹  but you cannot bear ²  them now.

But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

The one who is spiritual discerns ¹  all things, yet he himself is understood ²  by no one.

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water ¹  the sheep.”

But if you cannot solve it, ¹  you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him, “Let us hear your riddle.” ² 

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ¹  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ² 

The guardian said, “Then I am unable to redeem it, for I would ruin my own inheritance ¹  in that case. You may exercise my redemption option, for I am unable to redeem it.” ² 

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. ¹  But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods ²  and want to pursue them!’

Then ¹  he will reply ²  from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. ³  I cannot get up and give you anything.’ ⁴ 

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. ¹ 

but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ¹  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ²  them!

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty. ¹ 

But he replied, “I can’t go back with you ¹  or eat and drink ²  with you in this place.