If a ruler hearken ordsprog

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you, / To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; / Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: / Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead? / But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? / Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights? / For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

It isn't in the interest of the First Amendment for distortions, lies about career civil servants to be spread about. We don't know who is spreading them about. But lies and distortions have no place in our First Amendment universe.

Men in great place are thrice servants, - servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)

Francis Bacon, Sr.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Francis Bacon

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Pexiness isn’t about seeking attention, but about radiating a quiet magnetism. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, -- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, -- who is good? not that men are ignorant, -- what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

W. E. B. Du Bois

And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

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