Proverbs 24:30

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

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

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

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

An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.

“You shall not commit adultery.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Look at this. We have searched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

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

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.