Proverbs 17:6

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons. Don’t take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

but in very deed—as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with Yahweh’s glory—

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

However Yahweh would not destroy David’s house, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

“For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

“Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather themselves together. They come to you. Your sons will come from far away, and your daughters will be carried in arms.

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”

“For a small moment I have forsaken you, but I will gather you with great mercies.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’ ”

Nevertheless, I will not do it in your days, for David your father’s sake; but I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,

After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

For you are our glory and our joy.

Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.