My child, if sinners ¹  try to entice ²  you, do not consent! ³ 

because ¹  you neglected ²  all my advice, and did not comply ³  with my rebuke,

they did not comply with my advice, they spurned ¹  all my rebuke.

If you have a willing attitude and obey, ¹  then you will again eat the good crops of the land.

Then Absalom sent a message to Joab asking him to send him to the king, but Joab was not willing to come to him. So he sent a second message to him, but he still was not willing to come.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was not willing to release them.

You were not willing to go up, however, but instead rebelled against the Lord your God. ¹ 

Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept ¹  prophesying good things about ²  you, and I rescued you from his power. ³ 

But he refused to listen to her. ¹  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ² 

All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ¹ 

But my people did not obey me; ¹  Israel did not submit to me. ² 

He will not consider ¹  any compensation; ²  he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation. ³ 

In the past he said to them, ¹  “This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found.” ²  But they refused to listen.

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹  because they are not willing to listen to me, ²  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ³ 

But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, ¹  you will be free ²  from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory ¹  in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, ²  just as Pharaoh had commanded.

“‘If you walk in hostility against me ¹  and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction ²  seven times according to your sins.

You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.