mischief
63 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
And both of these kings’ hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
KJV Apocrypha (Catholic Deuterocanon)
Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:
Casting down his countenance, and making as if he heard not: where he is not known, he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware.
He that worketh mischief, it shall fall upon him, and he shall not know whence it cometh.
And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.
Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,
Wherefore they took of the men of the country, that were authors of that mischief, about fifty persons, and slew them.
Insomuch that he discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischief: and those poor men, who, if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should have been judged innocent, them he condemned to death.
The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people:
And thou, that hast been the author of all mischief against the Hebrews, shalt not escape the hands of God.
But the King of kings moved Antiochus’ mind against this wicked wretch, and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all mischief, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea, and to put him to death, as the manner is in that place.
KJV Apocrypha (Eastern Orthodox Additions)
Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief
Apostolic Fathers
Let it be your care therefore to come more fully together, to the praise and glory of God. For when ye meet fully together in the same place, the powers of the devil are destroyed, and his mischief is dissolved by the unity of their faith.
OT Pseudepigrapha
Moreover, a twofold mischief is wrath with lying; and they assist one another in order to disturb the heart; and when the soul is continually disturbed, the Lord departeth from it, and Beliar ruleth over it.
A person then may with words help the good for the sake of the evil, yet the issue of the action leadeth to mischief.
O my son! thou hast been like the serpent riding on a thorn-bush when he was in the midst of a river, and a wolf saw them and said, "Mischief upon mischief, and let him who is more mischievous than they direct both of them."
O my son! thou hast been like the serpent riding on a thorn-bush when he was in the midst of a river, and a wolf saw them and said, "Mischief upon mischief, and let him who is more mischievous than they direct both of them."