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Genesis 49:6

WEB

6My soul, don’t come into their council. My glory, don’t be united to their assembly; for in their anger they killed men. In their self-will they hamstrung cattle.

KJV

6O my soul[+], come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

BSB

6May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

FBV

6[+] I refuse to be part of their decisions; I refuse to participate in what they do. For they killed men in their anger; they crippled cattle just for fun.

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Extra References

Genesis 34:30

30Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”


Psalms 26:9

9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men


Psalms 16:9

9Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.


Luke 12:19

19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’


2 Corinthians 6:14

14Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?


Psalms 57:8

8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.


Jeremiah 15:17

17I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.


Psalms 64:2

2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;


Jeremiah 4:19

19My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.


Psalms 26:4-5

4I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. 5I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.