Proverbs 11:4

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth—the sons of Noah—and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—

They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the willows.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

Now among these were of the children of Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.

Noah went into the ship with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

what then will I do when God rises up? When he visits, what will I answer him?

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

He will lift up a banner to the nations from far away, and he will whistle for them from the end of the earth. Behold, they will come speedily and swiftly.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is among you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres. Therefore the abundance that he has gotten has perished.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.