חִנָּם

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

…then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your servant.”

“No,” replied the king, “I insist on paying a price, for I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

“No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”

Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me—my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

Do not accuse a man without cause, when he has done you no harm.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.

Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.

“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.